The Most RELENTLESS Finisher In Boxing History! Aaron Pryor 

Thank you for this Brotha. You’re words were more important than the video I just watched. 🙏🏾

Aaron Pryor was also a Drug Addict! But I heard he Repented and Received Jesus Christ as his Saviour!

I share that sentiment

Respect

Why should he brag about his career when it was built upon his drug addiction,he didn't want you to think his drug induced tenacity was something to aspire to he just wanted to warn the young people from going down the path of drug addiction he went

@john loughlin Could you name five boxers in that era who were not using drugs?

@john loughlin I guess that puts him in good standing with the rest of them.

@Trusted Target They're all on something. The only difference is some use enhancements not recognized by governing bodies and switch substances once it is recognized. Your favorite athlete is tainted like the rest of them.

@@Manny-nm8dh I totaly agree.

True indeed

Marvelous hagler

Clever

To be fair Hearns was 3 yr his jr and had 17 yrs old.

@@santiagoalonso7257 still though. It's always good to respect a opponent

Thomas was a 17 year old who fought him like a man. That was more than Ray Leonard ever did. Leonard was scared of this guy and never faced him other than getting beat up by Pryor before firing him as a sparring partner in camp.

@@santiagoalonso7257 Really ? Are you serious ? Camacho even beat Leonard. He was overrated because he was America's black sweetheart. Now go watch the rest of that interview of the press conference of your sugar boy. Wearing a gay sailor's cap. And go find out why before the Olympics Ray moved up in weight when Pryor entered that weight category.

@@santiagoalonso7257 Indeed

Lmfao they knock him down.. Run when Aaron gets back up☠️☠️☠️

@@javantedavis1999 Fareal. It’s like they were the ones that got knocked down 😂. Like wait hold on. Hahahah he’s suppose to be the one on defensive not you.

He'd wind the right arm up and attack

Because he's a cheater and been a cheater his whole career drinking that special mix drink his weak cheating ass trainer Panama gave him every fight.

He's a disgrace

man I've just looked up Henry Armstrong and he might be the best fighter I've ever seen in terms of manipulating his opponent moving them about with body leans and footwork. Amazing; thanks for the tip.

WOW! Thanx for the education my man!

Armstrong was a machine. That draw was controversial against the middleweight Champion. No catchweight....only 8 divisions at the time. Armstrong pound for pound one of the greatest ever. Often over looked

@@LBNoah316 Yes P4P indeed. I believe the late great boxing historian Bert Sugar had him somewhere in his top 5 of all-time

Thanks for the gems.

Interesting

Pryor is the Ancient Spirit of blugeoning decapitation!

It is interesting…cuz Hawk would split Tank in 2

@@mannyneva1760 pryor would split manny in two.

Well Gervonta lied cause he fights nothing like him🤣

Me too what a beast.

Oh yeah what fight and what year?

Yeah me too being born in the early sixties I got a chance to see a lot of the old school greats people don't really talk about how good Cesar Chavez really was he fought over a 115 to 120 fights and I think he lost maybe 2 fights in his career can you imagine that over a hundred fights!

@@thedarksideoftheforce6658 man shutup. Ppl were on earth before you and RU-vid boy

Cheater

One of the most Doped up you mean.

@@patrickhausenfleck9045 I have always said he was so doped up you couldn't have knocked him out with a telephone pole. Tests confirmed this. Panama Lewis Pyrors trainer was banned from boxing because of this.Pryor vs Arguello. Pryor was looking dead tired.Lewis asked for the bottle and said no not that one the one I mixed. Pryor came out looking fresh as a daisy. You don't take that many punches and throw that many and look totally refreshed.

@@barrykime5580 To Hell With Martin & Lewis!!!.....Pryor & Lewis was the Greatest "ACT" there was...even if on the Crooked tip👍👎

@@barrykime5580 There is no drug, street or legal, that lessens the impact of the brain crashing into the side of the cranium. This impact is what causes a fighter to wobble after a hard punch and the effect that could lead to a knockout as well. Even if Pryor was given some PED during the Arguello fight, there is nothing he could have taken to protect or prevent what might happen to his brain. Watch the fight right here on RU-vid and make up your own mind. Would you be pleased to know this business about the black bottle may have played a role in Pryor becoming a coke addict? I know it sounds like a cop-out, and maybe it was. But it doesn't diminish the fact he put his life in order by getting off the blow and starting giving and taking blows in the ring. His Leonard-like comeback wasn't nearly as successful as that of Sugar Ray, who also became a snow-bound addict as well. I was pulling for Arguello in both Pryor fights and The Hawk knocked him out in each one. Pryor had the toughest chin of any welterweight of my lifetime, and that includes Benvenuti, Mayweather, Pacquiao, Hearns, Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard.

@@patrickhausenfleck9045 Whatever happened watch the second Arguello fight. No one could make Arguello quit. Except for Aaron Pryor. As far as his style being impossible without chemistry, he had that way of fighting in the very beginning as an amateur. So a savage frenetic style is rare to be sure, but two all time greats fought in a similar manner. Henry Armstrong and Harry Greb.

It's in the special water 💦

if you want even more than this watch Rocky Marciano

@@tomerx1 😂🤣✌🏽

@@tomerx1 this feed has nothing to do with heavyweights. if you want to talk about Marciano then find a feed about him. this is about Aaron Pryor, so give him the respect and comment on him.

@@camiloardila2399 it's that damn crack he smoked lmao. Just playing but alotta champs had drug problems in those years, Micheal dokes, even sugar ray did coke

Alexis Arquello the greatest super feather weight in history period

It was like he didn't feel pain OR fatigue.

And the old folks said he was feared a lot by many boxers such that even the sensational Sugar ray avoided him by moving up to middle weight class😂

@@jumahamis227 ...Actually, Sugar was going to fight him. Then, in 1982, Leonard suffered a detached retina and the fight was cancelled. Pryor heard the news over his car radio. Aaron was feared by boxers, but Ray moved up to middleweight because that's where Marvin Hagler (and the $$$) was. Tommy Hearns, another great welterweight of that era, did the same. To be clear though, no person in his right mind would have "wanted" to fight Aaron Pryor. You only did it for the money and/or a shot at the title. He was the Tasmanian Devil in boxing gear (and maybe on something, as well).

His handlers turned down fights with Duran and Leonard to keep him champion and money coming in.he turned down like 700 thousand to fight either of them but wanted more. I believe he wasn't scared to fight them but it was the people handling his career.

With the drugs of course

Had the pleasure to grow up with AP McCall tubb and many More c Shaw ✌️

I did not know he had passed away, one of the greatest ever.

on the contrary, pryor is actually overrated. now before anyone gets a fit, let me clarify. overrated doesn't mean 'not great'. it just means people rate someone higher than they ought to be rated. you can be the best fighter and still be overrated. ali, for example, is almost unanimously hailed as the greatest fighter in the last 50 years and with good reason. but many say he's unbeatable. that's overrating. no one is unbeatable. same with pryor, he's a great, great fighter. very exciting to watch. but not great enough to put his name beside the likes of the 4 kings, which some make him out to be. some even suggest SRL ducked him. the hawk is sloppy and only has 2 significant wins - the aging arguello and cervantes. hardly comparable to the legends of the sport. all-time great, yes! legendary, no. and to think otherwise makes him overrated.

@@planetmayhem2012 I understand your point completely. However, since he never fought the 4 kings, how else can you rate him? He could've beaten all 4 kings or could've gotten blasted, but we'll never know. Therefore, however he gets rated, it's primarily up to the individual. I choose to say he's underrated. Your points are highly valid, though. 👍🏾🥊

@@gl6996 the only reason he beated Arquello was because he was crazy with all the drugs he took before and after I'm glad he became Pastor and left the life back.

I'm in the same boat,I grew up watching Tyson.. I wish I could of seen this guy in his Hey day

I don't knock your opinion whatsoever... But I think us 80's babies/90's kids had our own master class of greats to watch live. Some even steming from the 70's and 80's. I don't think I'd trade it for any other decade. Just my opinion though. Also, WAAAAAAAAAY better cameras and televisions to view them on. lmao Now that's just a fact... 😊😂

Same here. But, we got Tyson, Holyfield and other great fighters.

@@adamage1766 Sweet Pea, Pac Man, Roy Jones, James Tony, Winky Right, Oscar De La Hoya.., I could go on and on... So many warriors!

Hell yeah when the fights were fucking pure skill and will

It would be nice.

You will in a couple of years to come when I turn pro.

@@thanjhaeteasley1160 Post some videos of you working that bag

@@MohawkItalian76 just look at my Instagram it’s Thaj_teasley, and bag work doesn’t really show to you much

@@thanjhaeteasley1160 I just assumed that you would also show speed bag, sparring, running.ect

Remember him and his entourage jogging around downtown yelling ' what time is it!? He had the hype but he also had the skill and toughness to back the hype

@@skeetboatwright7674 Almost definitely. But Pryor was just a genuinely aggressive fighter, and coming on would've been his natural style. I'm sure he studied LaMotta's style for tips, though.

LaMotta, Joe Frazier, and Henry Armstrong!

He Actually is lol

There are some similarities.

He was much closer to Henry Armstrong or Harry Greb. LaMotta wasn't in the same league skill wise and always came forward in a crouch. LaMotta was a pressure fighter but he wouldn't be called a boxer.

You could hit this guy with an aluminum baseball bat and wouldn't have made any difference.When HE got knocked down, he thought he knocked YOU down. Dude was the Tasmanian Devil in boxing gear. Crazy man (and a super-human fighter). That's why people avoided him.

Without drugs tho

Turned down a career high payday to fight Leonard. He knew those black bottles Panama Lewis mixed wouldn’t help him

@@RaulRamirez-jv4rn , He wasn’t afraid of Leonard they use to spar some together and Leonard’s camp sent him on his way because the sessions were becoming heated. Ray retired in November of 82 killing a fight between him and Pryor that would have eventually happened in 83 or 84.

Lmao you called it sir. Perfectly said.

Goddamn Stephan, u called those 3 elements bruh. Trainers know about this man but the sverage fight fan under 40 don't know about this man.

This is how I killed guys on the basketball court. My conditioning & hustle & skill.

Sugar Ray Leonard refused to fight him

@@jackadoni Y’all kill me with that dumb ass rumor. Leonard offered him 500k and he REFUSED. Cut it out. That man stayed at one weight class his whole career while Leonard went on to win titles in 5 different weight classes. Y’all really think he scared of this man??

​@@Bob-eo6uh maybe he Did but Leonard was shrewd at pricing the fight out knowing Pryor was worth more

It was said that Sugar Ray Leonard moved up weight classes to get away from him. He was a Tasmanian devil with gloves.

@@Manny-nm8dh I've seen a few of his fights,they were brutal and entertaining

@@Manny-nm8dh i thought of the tasmanian devil too

@Jamie W You should wait a week...

A monster

💊💊💊💊💊💊💊💊

Tasmanian devil will give you hell 🔥 of a fight with absolutely monster power: the name fitted him

Nah. Your mom named you after the mailman

@@sirnolacketh2176 😯😲🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

@@sirnolacketh2176 you got him good

hmm sure

@@sirnolacketh2176 why you do him like that 😭😭😭

And the ones he did fight wished they ducked lol

Leonard didnt want Pryor

@@dominiquejones3805 ducked him! 🦆🦆🦆

@@housemoneyken7100 He only lost to Arguello because of Panama Lewis, Arguello the only man to wanna fight the best, if you were a monster he would fight you.

And the fact his trainer was loading his water bottles!

I never seen a thing like that before :)

Mine too and still

Aaron Pryor's fighting style was like watching the 1994 movie, "Speed." The bus had to keep moving at least 50 mph. Can't stop.

Yes and for him to be so cocky and aggressive some times pre fight, he was a great sport

@@DrSeuss-nv9hw cocaine can do and more

@@mookeychase0907 he was a addict

I heard SRL didn’t want no parts of him

Sugar ray avoid avoiding him could have been a fight of the century

SRL takes him to the cleaners

@@mikejall3644 false .

@@williampinkard4809 I was there kid

My two favorite fighters! I loved to watch them execute the “sweet science”!

and thats b4 the fight !

it's like you almost don't wanna hit him so you may as well duck him altogether. beastly!

"Everyone has a plan...until they knock me down." -Aaron Pryor

In Aaron's mind it WAS YOU that got knocked down.

Pryor turned down a career high payday from Leonard. That’s a duck on Pryors part. He knew not even his black bottle that Panama Lewis mixed would help him against Leonard

He was a drug fighter. Good fighter, but a known and proven drug fighter..... he didn't need it tho. He was very talented. But he needed it when he fought arguello. His head trainer and corner man Panama Lewis, was caught several times cheating. And exiled from boxing.

@@becool5706 if he needed it to fight Arguello what happened in the second fight 🤔 without Panama Lewis?

They never proved that because he would of been suspended with Title vacated. Pryor beat Arguello worse the 2nd time. I'm a fan of Arguello and Aaron " the Hawk" Pryor

His resume was thin. He beat a faded ATG who put up a good fight until he became superman all of a sudden...

@@onlyrog5 just stop

BEST FIGHT I REMEMBER!🥊🥊

That was the doping fight? The special brown bottle that his trainer mixed?

@@userangl1 Yup.

Arguello was coming on strong till Pryor took a sip of that bottle for the second ime

Wrong..... Arguello was fading....enough with the conspiracy theories.

@@lordburlap4514 not conspiracy lol clear audio and video evidence of Panama Lewis giving Pryor smelling salts between rds and sip of mixed water in 3rd and 13th rd

Sorry, but it was skill not "sipped water" that beat Arguello....

@@lordburlap4514 what do you mean he was addicted to cocaine you moron then got off it and started a campaign against drugs.

Arguelo was three classes above his best weight and then there is Panama Lewis.

@@Johnnybratton802 Excuses, excuses. They don’t change a THING..the result was Pryor knocked out arguello in the 14th round! And it will stay that way! LOL!!

He was a Tazmanian Devil. Watch the highlights against Alexis Arguello. Savage!

Catch up on his fights. He never got tired.

He was relentless it was unreal the pressure he brought

😂

😂

I knew him after he retired and he was a good trainer and a nice guy. But we knew he was a dangerous man with his hands. He told stories of being on top of the world in his profession and being at the crack house hallucinating a year later . He really experienced the best and worst of life in his short time on Earth

Except to wish him a good day

At all for no reason

Him and Tony Tubs.😂

I know people who had ran into him in the street here in the Nati. He was a full on crackhead at that point

I'm so sure that Leonard ducked a smallish junior welterweight who had just 2 marquee names on his resumé. And both those names--Arguello and Cervantes--were pretty much at the end of their careers. Yet Leonard, a man who stepped into the ring against Hagler, Duran (3 times), Benitez, and Tommy Hearns (twice), Lalonde and Kalule, supposedly trembled in fear over Pryor? Jokes don't get any funnier.

For real. I was committed to hearing this dudes life story! Lol

Nothing hurts more than Pryor vs Arguello I. An insanely vicious 14 round war.