Mike McCallum would have knocked out Thomas Hearns at 154lbs. Discuss.

Not really. He won the early rounds, then McCallum took control. It was not a come from behind KO in any way. Mike was in control, ground McCrory down and took him out.

 

The only point in which McCallum took control of that fight was in the last three rounds after he hurt McCrory in the eighth.Prior to that,a very close fight.And I never said he was losing,either.

 

Not particularly close at all. And a drubbing towards the end.

 

I think it's very likely McCallum knocks Hearns out. Hearns jab and speed win the early rounds but McCallum would be working the body, pressuring and Hearns would be weakened down the stretch leaving him open to McCallum to walk him down and knock him out. Hearns just wouldn't be strong enough to hold McCallum off down the stretch

The 15 round distance really suits McCallum here though

 

I think the fight was going in his favour before that. After the first five or so. From the 8th to the finish it was all McCallum.

I don't see that as a "very competitive fight". It was competitive for a while, but certainly not the whole fight.

 

It's a damn shame this fight didn't come off. Arguably the two greatest LMW champions in history, both prime in the same era yet never fighting each other.

 

I think Mike TKO's Tommy late somewhere between the 12th-14th after being behind on the scorecards.

 

You'll speak when spoken to in future,lad.

 

Who the **** you calling lad you soft ****?

 

I like Hearns, but I wonder why he doesn't get more stick for ducking McCallum. It's one of the most blatant duck jobs in modern boxing, I'd say.

That Duran took on Hearns even though Mike was the mandatory is a duck in a more formal sense. It was not as if Hearns was seen as a less formidable foe, quite the opposite if anything, and fighting him brought much more money and also unification.

But Tommy had every chance of giving Mike his deserved chance after he dispatched of Duran. It was really the thing to do. Instead he defended against much inferior challengers and then moved up to MW.

The reason is probably that Steward thought Hearns would lose to McCallum.

 

They were stablemates & sparring partners, IIRC McCallum was supposed to fight Duran but Steward got Hearns the fight instead. After that Mike left Kronk & moved to New York.

I think Mike wins more often than not against Hearns, I just cant see Hearns outboxing him for 12 rounds without getting hurt at some point. The speed & power advantages Hearns has are offset by Mike's masterful technique & granite chin.

 

:-(

 

Take a wild guess.Can't imagine why that would draw such a volatile reaction out of you,but to each his own.

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