Aaron Pryor vs Antonio Cervantes - WBA Junior Welterweight Championship 

Pryor was a madman in there. Such a high boxing IQ with a savage intensity, relentless finisher, great chin, great endurance . His skills were phenomenal . One of my all time favs and possibly the greatest 140 lb fighter of all time.

And on the same day, Tommy "Hit Man" Hearns beat Pipino Cuevas for the Welterweight Title. It was a great day for Boxing in the USA.

Had the pressure of a Mexican fighter with a Americanized boxing style and skill. Love watching Aaron Pryor!

I remember watching this on television when I was fifteen years old. All my friends liked baseball and football, hockey, basketball. Not me. I never had an interest in any sport except for boxing, and Pryor was one of my favorites. I'd have loved to have seen him against Duran, Leonard, Benitez. Such a shame that those fights never happened. Sorry that he came to such a sad end.

Pryor along with Rocky Marciano were my two favorite fighters of all time. Both went down in the first round in while fighting for the championship. Both rose from the canvas to score knockouts.

I've never seen another fighter of any combat sport have the intensity and sheer madman style of just charging right at the person every single time combined with intelligent defense. Its amazing.

The most avoided fighter of his era. The greatest Jr Welterweight of all time hands down!!!!!!!!

I distinctly recall when this fight happened. Cervantes had been a great champion, but he was past his prime, and it was questionable just how much he had left. Pryor was scary talented, but he hadn't really beaten anyone of name, as no one wanted to fight him, every lightweight ducked him. As the fight started, it seemed like Pryor may have been in over his head, but by the 3rd round, when he had cut Cervantes, his onslaught from there to the end seemed more inevitable, and his win changed the boxing world.

Aaron Pryor was absolutely relentless! I think he was the most underrated fighter ever!

Cervantes around 35 years old the prime of a fighter 20 to 30 Cervantes was gone Pryor hell of of fighter!!

Rest in power Hawk you were one of the greatest ever

Gil Clancy knew boxing. Don't let Dela Hoya's blame game fool you.

Pryor and Hagler my 2 favorite boxers of all time.

Pryor's amazing! So much wasted motion yet he never let up. I remember reading that he and Mancini were in talks to fight before he jumped up in weight and fought Cervantes.

Antonio Cervantes was past his prime, but give Aaron Pryor credit he took care of business. A Cervantes prime would have been a much closer fight.

Pound for pound Aaron Pryor was one of the greatest and most underrated fighters of all time.

A great fight would have been Arguello vs Cervantes,.....especially f they were each about 28 or 29..............

TODAY IS THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF AARON PRYOR WINNING THE JUNIOR WELTERWEIGHT TITLE FROM THE GREAT ANTONIO CERVANTES. CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU, MR.PRYOR! YOU WERE THE GREATEST POUND FOR POUND FIGHTER IN HISTORY!

Looked like Cervantes could have gotten up, but he knew the madman was going to beat him up badly .

RIP Pryor. Most electrifying fighter I ever saw.

Wow....two championship fights in one day on network tv !!!!

Pryor fought my cousin Scottie Foreman back in 1978 also RIP to my cousin

Pryor could give any fighter in history at 140 or 147 a great fight -

Gil Clancy was not only a great trainer but one of the best boxing announcers I have ever heard. If one listened to Clancy one would hear some excellent advice on the sweet science. Pryor would have given Mayweather nightmares, and a bout with Pacman would have been a wild slug fest. I'd bet on Pryor for both of these dream bouts.

I have never ever, ever, seen anyone like Aaron Pryor. A/P was like a none stop madman, coming at you with relentlessness,with both hands from start to finish. And now I see why Sugar Ray Leonard declined to fight him. A/P was a fierce warrior.

Arron Pryor, had that Henry Armstrong fight style...relentless pressure.

Amazing skills combined with animal like ferocity. My favourite boxer ever!

Pambele was old here,both great fighters, people say drugs did him in but Pryor spent alot of himself in the Aguiluo fights, brilliant as they was,they retired aguilo and lessened Pryor afterwards.

LASTIMA QUE EN ESOS TIEMPOS,NO PASABAN BOX POR TELEVISION ABIERTA,ESTAS SI ERAN PELEAS,VERDADEROS BOXEADORES,NO PAYASOS COMO LA MAYORIA DE AHORA

RIP Aaron "The Hawk" Pryor

They ducked Pryor and another great fighter,.....Mike Mccallum. Many of the very best names during that era wouldn't fight mccallum. The names missing from mccallum's list of opponents are; hearns, hagler, leonard, nigel benn, chris eubank, malinga, barkley, hopkins, kinchen, dewitt, sims, mugabi, nunn, sosa, roldan, and others. Those are among the very best at the time, and most of them ducked Mccallum. i'm sure a few of those guys had legitimate reasons but most were plain ducking mccallum. Mccallum was one of the best boxers in a real long time. These are some of Mccallum's victims; he knocked out these 5 great fighters;.....donald curry, milton mccrory, julian jackson, michael watson, and ayub kalule,..those 5 guys had a combined record of 149- 5-2. Knocking out those 5 guys was some great accomplishment. In addition, mccallum knocked out; David Braxton-35-1,... and Luigi Minchillo,45-3........Mccallum also defeated Steve Collins, Herol Graham, jeff harding (for the light heavy weight title at age 38 ), glenn thomas, and sean mannion......Mccallum had to fight Sumbu Kalambay twice and the great James Toney 3 times due to others ducking him..He was 1-1 against kalambay and 0-2-1 against Toney.......... The other guys in that era weren't interested in getting a boxing lesson from Mccallum............. Mccallum was so good that he went to England when he was about 34 and beat the young stud named Michael Watson. .....Watson fought and beat Nigel Benn, but lost 2 ferocious battles to Chris Eubank. ......... Watson's 2nd fight with Eubank was so brutal that Watson suffered a career ending brain injury in the epic 11th round of that fight. If you've not seen the 2nd fight between Chris Eubank and Michael Watson,......it's worth watching if any fight ever was.

Cincinnati Great Aaron Pryor, there is never going to be a great effective swarmer as Pryor, quick on his feet he could of boxed if he wanted too.

Loved Pryor one a my favorites all yi.e great style incredible energy

Pound for pound Aaron Pryor was the most relentless slugger I’ve ever seen… More than Joe Frazier more than Mike Tyson… I’ve never really seen anyone else quite like him… Not pretty but relentless and tough. He could throw a punch from any angle… Off-balance… Leaning diving in… He hardly ever took a step backwards. Just a bulldog… Would have been exhausting to fight him.

The usual story. The champion Cervantes was very competent and proved it when he sent Pryor to the canvas briefly with a sharp counter in the first round. Like most of Pryor's opponents though he couldn't hurt him and eventually succumbed to the Pryor relentless pressure.

M acuerdo muy clarito está pelea la bi en vivo en Venezuela q tiempos aqueyos mis panas

Watch thz back in tha day. Kid palmala wuz a old time great. He fought duran back n tha late 60 early 70. He wuz about 50 or mid 40.

Everyone in the light weight and Walter ran from him he never got a opportunity GOAT Arron Pryor 👍💪😁

Nice! Good upload!

Was this video shown in 3D or something???

Aaron Pryor should have been called Hurrican Pryor

pambele kept that title for a longer time, a had many more fights than Pryor, without drinking any black bottle, pryor was great anyway, but Pambele was greater, even though many dont want to acknowledge it.

I remember watching Pryor as a boy and it always seem to me as if he didn't punch hard but the guys dropped very hurt.

I m surprised that people are so caught up on Aaron Pryors style when Roberto Duran had been doing it and did it against Sugar Ray Leonard. They say that the Hawk gave Sugar Ray fits in sparring, but there's a difference between sparring and a 7-figure bout in which the world will be watching. Pryor never made the jump. Benitez did it, Duran did, then they went to 154 and 160. Nothing stopping the Hawk but he never showed.

Prime Cervantes takes out the Hawk.

pryor was that era's roy jones great fighter but really didnt fight as many top opponents as other great fighters

When you're watching the fight and wonder whether you need two pairs of glasses. 1) For the blur. 2) For the backflip 😲🥊🦾

Boy that was quick .

Corey Roberts, Aaron Pryor, was great fighter. Rest in Peace hawk I will see you when I die!! We will talk boxing.

I remember you, Aaron, RIP.

En que fecha fue ese careo??? Cerca de 1980???

Gran zuper campeon

Thanks for the video, Head first Videos

Mr. Aaron Pryor "The Hawk" October 20, 1955-October 9, 2016 #RESPECT #LEGENDARY #AARONPRYOR #THEHAWK #WHATTIMEISIT #HAWKTIME #RESTINPARADISEMRPRYOR #GONEBUTNEVERFORGOTTEN Professional Career: 1976-1990 A Two-Time World Light Welterweight Championship Title Holder World WBA Light Welterweight Championship Title Holder 1980-1983 Ring Magazine World Light Welterweight Championship Title Holder 1980-1983 World IBF Light Welterweight Championship Title Holder 1984-1985 Lineal World Light Welterweight Championship Title Holder 1983-1986 Ranked By The Boxing Writers Association Of America As Their Fighter Of The Year 1982 Inducted Into The International Boxing Hall Of Fame 1996 Voted By The Associated Press As The World's Best Light Welterweight Of The 20th Century 1999 Ranked As The 35th Greatest Boxer Of The Past 80 Years 2002 He Suffered Only One Defeat In His Professional Career At The Hands Of Bobby Joe Young Total Fights: 40 Wins: 39 Wins By Knockout: 35 Losses: 1

pryor = most exciting fighter of all time + most ducked fighter of all time

pambele aqui iba delante en las targetas y perdió del 140 mas duro en la historia, seguro con sustancias, porque gasto un millón de dolares en crack y no le resto merito, un peleador solido, benitez le gano a duran tambien, es decir no es un pambele en su mejor momento, y el rival le ganaba a cualquiera en cualquier época.....Pambele fue un buen boxeador.....

Aaron, raised in over the Rhine Cincinnati, tough sob

Pryors one of the best nice when he fight toe to toe its his fight

Is this fight in 3D?

Aaron Pryor would have beat Leonard.

iIf you was a contender comlng up with pryor you didnt want to face him because of his whirlwind style but a lot of people didnt know he can box also and as far as Leonard goes he always wanted to fight leonard but he was expecting a big payday not contender money they should had offer him a couple of million not no 750,000

The controversial Panama 'Ephedrine' Lewis in Aaron Pryor's corner.

Impose that will baby , Impose that will

The cameraman is wretched, keeps cutting off the fighters legs and getting in too close.

Kid Pambele guerrero como todo deportista colombiano

i have no idea joey!!¡

El boxeador más evitado porque, porfavor sugar leonard , maravilla hagler , tomas, Durán ya sabían que se drogaba en las peleas mejor evitar que quedarán echos pedazos ya que era invencible😂

Un grande aaron pryor.

Pambele nunca perdio una pelea 😊😊😊😊

Pryor could have given Henry Armstrong a fight.

cuando pambele pierde el titulo ya estaba en las drogas

its like im watching this with my eyes crossed, shiiiit mayne

lol indeed ! they were mirror images

Aaron never climbed to the welterweight.Leonard , Duran and Hearn, however moved from welter to jr. middleweight.I did not see Aaron with chance to beat Leonard or Hearn.Smaller in height and reach. H e finished two wore fighter, Cervantes and Arguello.

a younger Pambele catches Pryor a lot faster and wouldnt let hi, get up after

Pryor' knocking out Arguello twice. I was rooting for Arguello but Pryor was too strong 1st fight was a great one saw live on HBO wasn't happy about our come But Arguello just couldn't hurt Arguello. How many punches did Pryor hit Aguello with alot

Was that video made in 3D ? It`s hurting my eyes

Pryor Duran would have been good. Not sure why that didn't happen.

見ての通りアントニオ・セルバンテスは強豪である。 ただアーロンの馬力はすごい。 パンチ力もあるね。

Hypothetical speaking what I would have love to see was Floyd Mayweather Jr and Aaron Pryor both in there primes Say both in there early twenties! I don’t think Mayweather would have been able to with stand the pressure! Although an undefeated great fighter Mayweather did not do well with aggressive fighters constantly throwing punches! But strangely enough except for a very few they all slowed down before the fight ended and fought his kind of fight! Arron Pryor would not have did that! Aggression from the beginning to the end.

The Real Champ! Pryor!

That is why Ray Leonard dodge Aaron Pryor during his whole fight career! Even moving up in weight to avoid a fight with Aaron Pryor! He wasn’t willing to risk it!

The only reason we know him because he did fight a legend like Arquello but never did anything after. Facts You can see him on drugs most of all his fight

I did realize prior was so small

Is this supposed to be 3d?

This guy is juiced up😄😄

Dos grandes campeónes indudablemente, pambele ya en declive y pryor en su mejor momento,pero en igualdad de condiciones pambele lo hubiese matado si quieren vean el primer round ni Arguello pudo tumbar a pryor

Pambele en esa pelea llevaba una vida muy desorhanizada en la dtoga

pambele was the first that put Pryor on the canvas.

cervanaes did well look who hes fighting

His manager got him that rem 5 pounds more than u think he was a little guy hell he want Leo at 47 and he still didn't want it Leo was a big welterweight

Teddy Atlas brought me here.

Esa noche p ambele estaba amanecio y enguachabao

A punta de mariguana destronaba a los oponentes 😮😮

Little did they know they were the same people….

Pambele era el marido de Andrés Pastrana, ¿ Entendido ?

Pambele ya estaba tocando fondo en el vicio y no entrenaba adecuadamente

how old was cervantes here? 50-something?

This is bad video quality. But Cervantes was past his prime here.

Give me that bottle. The one that I mixed