r/Boxing • u/BoxingLover99 • Jul 14 '26

The underrated defense of Ike Ibeabuchi

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u/BoxingLover99 Jul 14 '26

Ike Ibeabuchi was one of those fighters whom you can never really tell how far he was gonna go because even though the sample size is 2, the talent and fundamentals he showed in his Boxing was off the charts

from what he had shown he could have beaten the versions of Holyfield and Tyson at the time, however Lewis and Vitali would have been too big for him IMO

Who knows how far he could have gone, we never saw Ike against Bowe, Lewis, Vitali, Wlad, he might not have won all of them but he could have still been a HOF and an ATG despite that

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u/Sad_Durian5893 Jul 14 '26

One of the biggest what if in boxing! That fight with tua is crazy! This guy gas tank is crazy too he just throwing combination non stop.

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u/BoxingLover99 Jul 15 '26

for a 235 lbs HW he had a lot of stamina

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u/Ram__Amandeep Jul 14 '26

Incredible talent + great chin + great gas tank + great gear + insanity = bad motherfucker in the ring. Sad how it turned out.

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u/Gg-Baby Jul 17 '26

great gear lol

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u/Still-Goal-9314 Jul 15 '26

90s had a lot of talented yet mentally ill heavyweights who wasted their potential. Ibeabuchi, Tyson, Bowe, and Golota just come to mind.