View Full Version : David Tua gets KOed..
boxingcar
07-13-2007, 11:51 AM
rare stuff..I think he was 16 or 17 in that one...
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Stinky gloves
07-13-2007, 12:00 PM
I knew his chin is made from china!
mario
07-13-2007, 12:00 PM
who ko'd him?
lucasehr
07-13-2007, 12:02 PM
Impossible! It must be an imposter.
who ko'd him?
it wAs Felix Savon
David B
07-13-2007, 12:06 PM
who ko'd him?
legendary Felix Savon
Chiko_Tech
07-13-2007, 12:07 PM
That was amateur legend Felix Savon and savon had aroud 30 years in that fight so that is a man with a boy, this fight don't count.
brooklyn1550
07-13-2007, 12:07 PM
That was amateur legend Felix Savon and savon had aroud 30 years in that fight so that is a man with a boy
:good
FlatNose
07-13-2007, 01:22 PM
No shame in losing to a confirmed legend in your formative years.
jopez707
07-13-2007, 01:53 PM
Yeah it was a legend against a boy, no shame there.
Bigcat
07-13-2007, 02:02 PM
i remember watching that........
It is absolutely no disgrace at all..
AREA 53
07-13-2007, 02:10 PM
Reminds me of Alex Ramos Koing Juan Roldan in the Am's, it can happen to anyone in their formative years, particularly when up against something of a Puncher.
goldnarms
07-13-2007, 02:18 PM
ZERO shame in that.
Stinky gloves
07-13-2007, 02:30 PM
ZERO shame in that.
That worst excure ever!
It means: my chin is glass and I'm proud of it!
goldnarms
07-13-2007, 02:34 PM
That worst excure ever!
It means: my chin is glass and I'm proud of it!
Getting knocked out by Felix Savon means you have a glass jaw? :patsch
charlievint
07-13-2007, 02:35 PM
Nah...it just means you don't know your boxing. Felix is almost a Myth in Cuban HW boxing. He's the greatest HW boxer never to turn pro. He was a monster in the AM and his potential was limitless. He had all the physical attributes and skills to match.
Darthmage
07-13-2007, 02:40 PM
It was in 1991 and Tua was 19. Felix Savon was 24 at the time. Talk about a man vs a boy right? Debunked myth right there.
That was amateur legend Felix Savon and savon had aroud 30 years in that fight so that is a man with a boy, this fight don't count.
:patsch This fight was at the 1991 World Amateur Championships. At this time Tua was 19 years old and Savon 23 years old.
4 YEARS DIFFERENCE
What the hell are you talking about?
Darthmage
07-13-2007, 03:05 PM
:patsch This fight was at the 1991 World Amateur Championships. At this time Tua was 19 years old and Savon 23 years old.
4 YEARS DIFFERENCE
What the hell are you talking about?
If I had to guess i'd say that this is the perception of a lot of people on this forum.
joe namath's gin
07-13-2007, 03:59 PM
:patsch This fight was at the 1991 World Amateur Championships. At this time Tua was 19 years old and Savon 23 years old.
4 YEARS DIFFERENCE
What the hell are you talking about?
It's known fact that Samoans reach puberty at a much later age.
Tua's testicles hadn't even dropped at that age...
charlievint
07-13-2007, 04:02 PM
It was in 1991 and Tua was 19. Felix Savon was 24 at the time. Talk about a man vs a boy right? Debunked myth right there.
being 19 agasint a 24 yr old doens't mean anything. You see guys like Valero and Juan Diaz going in there against grown men...early 30's and they're KOing guys. Myth still in tact
Darthmage
07-13-2007, 04:30 PM
being 19 agasint a 24 yr old doens't mean anything. You see guys like Valero and Juan Diaz going in there against grown men...early 30's and they're KOing guys. Myth still in tact
I was being sarcastic..
Stinky gloves
07-13-2007, 05:03 PM
"That was amateur legend Felix Savon and savon had aroud 30 y ....."
"It was in 1991 and Tua was 19. Felix Savon was 24 at the time....."
"At this time Tua was 19 years old and Savon 23 years old ....."
Guys stop, this is the best aging treatment ever,
Savon will be 15 if this thread continue for the next 3 pages.
626BrownBomber
07-13-2007, 05:36 PM
Anyone who says Tua has a glass jaw is an idiot. Some of the people on here I swear don't know crap about boxing. He was a young man fighting a man, and he got stopped, it happens. Im sure the guy he was fighting probably had at least 200 fights seeing that he was a 30 year old cuban amatuer. And, Tua has never been stopped in the pros in over 40 fights with smaller gloves, so that goes to show you live and you learn.
Saltzy
07-13-2007, 05:39 PM
Tua did get dropped by Rahman tho..... :D
Gabriel R.
07-13-2007, 06:08 PM
Beautiful knockout!
Savon also koed Brewster and Briggs.
lefthook31
07-13-2007, 06:09 PM
Looked like a headbutt, anyone see a punch land?
Darthmage
07-13-2007, 06:22 PM
Anyone who says Tua has a glass jaw is an idiot. Some of the people on here I swear don't know crap about boxing. He was a young man fighting a man, and he got stopped, it happens. Im sure the guy he was fighting probably had at least 200 fights seeing that he was a 30 year old cuban amatuer. And, Tua has never been stopped in the pros in over 40 fights with smaller gloves, so that goes to show you live and you learn.
What language you want me to type it in? SAVON WAS 24 YEARS OLD WHEN HE TKOd TUA.
sandwichsurgeon
07-13-2007, 06:25 PM
It is threads like these that put me off boxing.
"That was amateur legend Felix Savon and savon had aroud 30 y ....."
"It was in 1991 and Tua was 19. Felix Savon was 24 at the time....."
"At this time Tua was 19 years old and Savon 23 years old ....."
Guys stop, this is the best aging treatment ever,
Savon will be 15 if this thread continue for the next 3 pages.
Ok, lets get the numbers. The fight between David Tua and Felix Savon was the semifinal in the heavyweight division of the World Amateur Championships which were staged in November 1991 in Sydney, Australia. Felix Savon was born September 22, 1967 so he had just turned 24 at that time.
And to adress this bullshit about Tua being a boy fighting men: Savon himself won his first senior Amateur World Championship in May 1986 at age 18. Wladimir Klitschko won the Superheavyweight Gold medal in 1996 at the age of 20.
TamaTonga
07-13-2007, 06:48 PM
this was a man vs a boy fight
Gabriel R.
07-13-2007, 07:34 PM
Ok, lets get the numbers. The fight between David Tua and Felix Savon was the semifinal in the heavyweight division of the World Amateur Championships which were staged in November 1991 in Sydney, Australia. Felix Savon was born September 22, 1967 so he had just turned 24 at that time.
And to adress this bullshit about Tua being a boy fighting men: Savon himself won his first senior Amateur World Championship in May 1986 at age 18. Wladimir Klitschko won the Superheavyweight Gold medal in 1996 at the age of 20.
Exactly. Some people are simply ignorant. Savon was just a superiour boxer, at every stage of his carreer.
diehard
07-13-2007, 07:50 PM
Tua got stopped, not knocked out!
Shamrock
07-13-2007, 09:13 PM
Was it officially termed a KO or TKO?
diehard
07-13-2007, 09:53 PM
Not sure. But Tua wasn't ko'd and counted out on his back. He was back up and ready to fight. However, the referee intelligently thought better of it. So not sure how it was termed, but he was NOT knocked out.
Bad_Intentions
07-13-2007, 10:01 PM
c'mon now. he was in his teens.
if it was the tua who fought against ruiz against prime savon. savon's chin would be spinning in circles 300 times.
it is said by the cuban boxing historians that savon had a glass chin.
Shamrock
07-13-2007, 11:53 PM
Not sure. But Tua wasn't ko'd and counted out on his back. He was back up and ready to fight. However, the referee intelligently thought better of it. So not sure how it was termed, but he was NOT knocked out.
I saw the fight, just wondered what the official term was, thats all.:good
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