Tommy Morrison vs Earnie Shavers

I'd pick him over Art Tucker.

I have no faith in his mandible or gas tank against elite heavies. The Foreman fluke (which I still scored for George) relied solely on George's ancient, concrete feet, something other elites of that era did not possess. It was a one-off strategy against a one-off opponent, and I still don't think he won.

 

Shavers by KO. Two elite punchers but not elite boxers. Shavers was more durable and had much better stamina though

 

Shavers was never a "Elite " Heavy and his chin / stamina was borderline worse that Morrisons...................plus Morrison has the better win too vs , according to Forum gospel the "hardest puncher and strongest Heavy that has ever lived" Jorge Foreman no matter how you scored it.

You just have to accept that Morrison was better looking than you and got the chicks you wanted but never got.

Morrison by KO

 

Shavers has wins over top ranked contenders like Norton, Ellis, Smith. He objectively had a better career than Morrison

Foreman was losing to journeyman gatekeeper types like Schulz by the time he faced Morrison so not a great win given the context.

 

Foreman won the Schulz fight, absolute fact.

 

He was failing to kayo guys he would be favored to stop early at his peak
Clearly his power was diminished

 

He still WON

Got stripped when he refused a mandatory Re match but in the Record books he won and that stands for eternity.

One more time, Morrison defused the "Hardest Puncher and strongest Heavy that has ever lived" .........use the search button and you will find countless threads on it by the "experts" on this forum, I disagree , but hey.

 

That version of Foreman was failing to stop journeyman so Morrison beating him is no great feat. Certainly less impressive than Shavers bombing out Ellis and Norton

 

That old version of George could be beat with a gimmick, a gimmick that oft involved turning one's back and running away.

And unless Tommy gets to swing his resume of used-up has beens and never weres... this fight will be fought in the ring with one predator and one insecure, paint-by-the-numbers frail construct that tends to fall apart when the heavy artillery lands.

 

They could both take eachother out early, slightly favour the straighter punches of Shavers, I feel he’d land first, he was great at jabbing to the body or throwing the straight right to the body for a few sequences, then when they think he’s gonna do the same, feint to the body, come over the top with and overhead right or straight right, he could also bounce on his feet during this to create range deception of the opponent, I feel Shavers being shorter would give him an advance here considering Morrison didn’t use his reach and when he comes into mid/close range, it just gives Shavers more space to land and time him.

 

You know, despite the Foreman fight showing Morrison could be calculating and even deft when properly motivated, I can see Earnie landing something horrible on him. He couldn't take that punch. Mercer never hit like that, even Lewis.

Prime Earnie thunders forth with a catastrophic right hand in the 2nd round, Morrison goes down hard, tries to get up but is doing the Trevor Berbick/Michael Spinks fish-outta-watta dance. He's mentally somewhere eating a peanut butter Fluff sandwich watching bats play trumpets and cats performing Black metal music.

 

I dont think Usain is a boxer but Earnie Shavers was. So your analogy is flawed.

 

Your logic is flawed. Since when did sprints have anything to do with a boxing match? It's incredible that I have to explain this.

 

But, but, but what if they fight in Morrison's hometown?

 

You just have to accept the fact that Morrison caught AIDS at age 27 and died a horrible wasted away death at just age 44 after being bedridden for a year, because he got the chicks nobody should ever want, but sometimes deserve to get, while Earnie lived to be 78 and got his final win when he was seven years older than the age Morrison died at.