Peter was easy to hit and slow .He gets sparked early rnds.Cooney could really hit hard .Would be target practise .
Cooney had one of the best left hooks to the body that folded guys in half. Whether they were good or not doesn't matter. It was a great punch and an example of something Cooney could do that Wlad couldn't.
It speaks volumes that you of all people can only come up with that, and you admit the guys he beat with a body attack sucked.
Cooney's attacks to Lyle's body were fairly evident, from the get go; pretty much taking away whatever legs the old soldier had left in him, inside a couple of minutes. Lyle, now more or less immobile, was crumpled by the final Left to the body from Cooney. Old as Lyle was (and as likely as a Cooney win might have been), I don't think anybody had done that to him before.
I would have to say that Peter is more proven at the highest level, and this might well be enough to justify making him favorite.
Cooney was a better short-range fighter than Wlad, in my opinion. Wlad really had no inside game - he just held and lent/pushed down on his opponents. Quite often, he would lurch forward, reach and grab for his opponent to instigate the stalemate in the action, eliciting intervention from the referee - this was pretty much a staple of his defense. Conversely, Cooney had a lot of room for improvement at long range. He certainly needed to develop a better jab (which he rarely bothered with) and his Right-Hand, with which he was not naturally predisposed to use to throw power shots.
Oh - Lyle was pretty much shot. However, the points are that Cooney more or less won the bout with a series of assaults to the body, within a round, and that no one before Cooney had done that to Lyle. I'm not really giving credit to Cooney for the win. He was expected to win, for obvious reasons. But, I think that perhaps the manner of victory, in the context of this discussion, is worthy of note.
Yeah, I was thinking about it more along the lines that there’s nobody I’d expect Cooney to slump over that Wlad wouldn’t do the same to.
Two things: 1. I need to find an example of Wlad beating anyone using body shots as his primary line of attack (and if you have one, I would genuinely like to be made aware of it so I can watch it). 2. Wlad might well have been able to beat everyone Cooney did, but that doesn't necessarily mean Cooney couldn't do a better job with Peter than Wlad did.
