Kovalev or Hearns?

Hearns.

 

Skills to outbox slick Sugar Leonard power to KO the stocky tree Roberto Duran said power carried to cruiser weight the third best of the four kings the hitman gets my respect in this fight his chin the War and natural junior middle weight build are the elephant in the room but the cobra KO's the red by the eighth in a fireworks show.

 

At light heavy Kovalev, Hearns did knock out Andries though at light heavy, but his punches had no effect on Barkley at 175 while Kovalev would have detroyed Barkley in a few rounds at 175, it doesn`t matter in terms of who would have won in a bout betwen Tommy and Kovalev, because Tommy would have been destroyed power punches or not, he was much slower at 175.

 

Actually you raise a good point on his mobility those gaunt legs of his couldnt slither so slickly at 175 once he built a pseudo heavyweight upper body. Haha

 

Kovalev showed more skill than a slower Hearns showed v Andries and would have stopped Andries faster than Hearns did and toyed with Barkley at 175 also, he would have detroyed Duran if Roberto could make 175 so I don`t know why you mentioned Roberto, there`s no way Duran could take a powerful light heavy punch at all, Kovalev would destroyed Maynard and a lot of cruisers, Tommy never knocked out a legitamite Cruiser champ.

 

You are right but funny enough someone mentioned on another thread that Hearns took Barkley`s punches better at 175 than at 160 because he did build up work on his legs so he could absorb shots better, but there`s no way he could have taken shot off the Kov the way he did v Barkley in `92.

 

Kovalev and it should not really require a whole lot of thought or time to come to this conclusion. Not even particularly close or debate worthy....but I do think Hearns hit harder than Marquez in an equally easy choice.

 

Could not agree more, Philly. We aren't talking about featherfisted and overrated Virgil Hill here. We are talking about very heavy handed Kovalev, who has excellent skills as well. If Iran Barkley could beat Tommy at 175, Tommy gets destroyed at that weight by Sergei.

 

For some reason I don't think Kovalev destroys Barkley in a few rounds. I could see Barkley do an upset on him the way he throws in the middle of exchanges and lands clean punches. He could punch and Kovalev's punching has been overrated a bit as well as his chin, prior to the second Ward fight. After the Ward fight and Alvarez fights we have to question Alvarez chin. I don't think it is safe to say he would take Hearns or Barkley's punches.

 

Kov is far harder to hit than Hearns was v Barkley, he just lay on the ropes with his hands up, Kov has an active guard and could easily out box and out jab Barkley.

 

No way man. Kovalev is a natural light heavyweight. Hearns is a natural junior middleweight at best. There's a big gap in weight between the two. If it was some other light heavyweight who wasn't really a puncher, maybe I'd consider it. But this is the Krusher. One of the biggest punchers in light heavyweight history. Kovalev would be the right pick here.

 

This may be true, but really does nothing to answer the question.

Edit: wait a minute you got booted again? What now? Is this the 3rd strike? Oh my! If you can read this good luck

 

Hearns by decision.