Talk:Panama Lewis

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PerWP:BLP removed negative unsourced material from the article. Edison 18:38, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Pryor v Arguello I

I removed the following inappropriate text from the body of the article and as a courtesy to the author I am moving it here.

"This statement which I have put in double braces is completely false. Wiki writers generally perform well, but in this case, the writer simply assumed that what was in the press about this fight was true. However, the boxing press is riven with corruption (ever heard of boxing promoters ?) and misled the public about this fight (Aaron Pryor - Alexis Arguello I). Pryor almost knocked out Arguello in the first round, hurt Arguello and opened a huge cut on Arguello in the 6th round, and, although Arguello landed one big punch in the 13th round (the one immediately before the questionable corner statements by Lewis), Pryor won that round overwhelmingly, and continued to pile on lefts and rights immediately after receiving that big punch from Arguello. In this 13th round, Arguello had begun clearly breathing through his mouth, whereas Pryor clearly looked the stronger and fitter of the two men.

Wiki writers are urged to rent this fight or download it and watch the whole fight before re-editing this page. You will find it difficult to give Arguello even a single round if you count the punches landed in this fight. In addition, Pryor was never hurt seriously in this fight. In addition, Pryor was the aggressor in this fight. He was always either the one coming forward, or circling and punching Arguello in face and body. In addition, in many portions of this fight, Arguello was driven to the ropes by Pryor and a significant portion of the fighting occurred with Arguello's back against the ropes. And Pryor defended himself brilliantly from Arguello's body punches. Few landed. The fight was not even close. Really. Watch it.

One year after this fight, these two men fought a rematch. With the huge hue and cry raised by crooks in the press about this fight, there was increased scrutiny on the drug tests performed on the two fighters for this rematch. In the rematch, Pryor performed identically to how he performed in the first fight, but it was Arguello, who lost his physicality and powerful right cross punch. If anything, the implications by the sequence of events are that it was Arguello who was the drug performance enhanced fraud throughout his career, not Pryor. Pryor knocked out Arguello in an earlier 10th round, in this 2nd fight, and really he could easily have knocked Arguello out in 3 or 4 rounds if he had wanted to go home early and pressed.

The point here is that Panama Lewis may well have been a cheat and a criminal. However, there is no proof that Aaron Pryor was involved in that nor did he benefit by that."