"...but for that accursed chin..."

Morrison would certainly be improved with a better chin, but he'd still have very poor stamina. So when he fought hard & gassed, Tommy would still get stopped, because being exhausted makes it a much easier task to bypass a tough chin & drop a man on his ass.

 

bernard dunne

 

Well, he should have 1 win over leonard anyway :deal

 

Don't hate on the Wizards. Magic the Gathering was the business.

 

Yeah, well I blame D&D for making every single ****ing videogame made in the west based on a diceroll

You got it all wrong. Yes, Magic made the TCG market viable. But it was actually good. And there was minimal overlap between the two fanbases. I'd know because I was playing Magic with my brother, cousins, and family friends as a kid while kids were punching each other over holographic Charizards. Pokemon's phenomenon was part TV, part videogame, and part tamagotchi. The actual game itself was played less than the cards were collected.

 

i still remember my first character's Thac0. Nerds unite!

 

I don't think Morrison's chin was that bad. It wasn't his chin that did him in against Mercer it was his stamina. He beat Mercer like a heavy bag for four rounds and the hard headed SOB wouldn't budge. He simply gave out.

He looked like he was doped up or something in that horrible loss to Bennt. Not that I'm insinuating foul play, just that Morrison didn't take it seriously. He wasn't ever seriously hurt in that fight, he just didn't have any legs and fell victim to the three-knockdown rule.

He took some big shots in other fights and kept coming. He had two very bad looking losses, but I don't think either one was because of a Seldon-type chin.
And I think he could've been a total-package guy if he would've ever taken the sport as seriously as he took the party-first lifestyle.

 

Amir Khan. He's certainly going places and a good enough fighter, but those whiskers are always going to be an issue. If he had an iron chin, he'd be something extremely special.

 

In terms of the D&D analogy, methinks Seldon was probably lacking the necessary wisdom and charisma needed to be a paladin. A lot of the kd's/ko's that he suffered seemed to be based more upon a lack of metal toughness than due to physical conditioning. Good STR and DEX, though, which allowed him to get to a fairly high level in his own right.

(And you're right. 2nd Ed was the business. :good)

Methinks if he were a Magic Card, he'd be somewhat akin to "Ball Lightning". Good power, haste, some sort of evasion abilty...but with low toughness and the requirement that he'd be tossed into the graveyard sooner rather than later.

And thanks for letting me re-acquaint myself with my inner nerd. :happy

 

I'd like to think of him as a Llanowar Elf personally.

 

Seriously, ask yourself this: who would have beaten Bob Satterfield if that guy had had a chin?

 

Man, I don't see it :-(