Tommy Morrison: best wins and career analysis

The only place Morrison is "relevant" is in the most niche of circles, kept alive by people like you, who can't seem to find a better human being to cheerlead.

Dude is a never was to boot. Stop propping him up.

 

Hey man, this is a boxing forum yeah? This is a thread that asked people opinions on Tommy Morrison...and people are doing that. Was he a flawed human being? Undoubtedly. But the OP didn't ask that, did he? Will we only discuss human beings with flawless personalities, because brother, it would be slim pickings believe me. Hey, you don't like him, and don't rate him, and that's cool. Your opinion is as relevant as mine or anyone else's. But nobody is 'propping' him, or looking for someone to cheer..we're only answering a question about a boxer. On a boxing forum. Because we are boxing fans.

Have a wonderful day brother man, peace and love, gbn x

 

Paul is new age garbage, doing anything to make a quick buck and get "clout". Tyson has never advertised himself as anything particularly positive, and has admitted to all sorts of awful ****.

But what do either have to do with Morrison?

 

Foreman fight was his best win now, as far as his career goes, had a little talent, but he wasn’t elite so he was a glorified titleholder which isn’t bad.

 

It's easy to make a case for Morrison not being a top 10 heavyweight at any point in his career as rankings are highly subjective and based on guesswork. His best win Foreman had controversial wins over Savarese and Schulz that many feel he lost and nobody considers either world class

Dominic Breazeale was briefly ranked in the top 10 but most would dispute that rating

 

The Schulz fight wasn't close, it was an outright robbery. Foreman brought in too much money during his comeback to fail against someone like Schulz.

 

Challenge accepted (I think you can make a good case for the following guys ahead of Morrison for the following years based on ability)
1991
Holyfield
Tyson
Lewis
Bowe
McCall
Mercer
Foreman
Witherspoon
Ruddock
Moorer
Tubbs
Tucker
Sanders

(1992)
Bowe
Lewis
Holyfield
Ruddock
Holmes
Mercer
Moorer
Tucker
Tubbs
Bruno
Sanders

(1993)
Lewis
Holyfield
Bowe
Tucker
Sanders
Bruno
Akinwande
McCall
Hunter
Moorer

(1994)
Lewis
Holyfield
Bowe
McCall
Moorer
Akinwande
Hunter
Zolkin
Bruno
Witherspoon
Foreman (questionable, beat Moorer but seems to have been fluke based on his other performances)

(1995)
Lewis
Holyfield
Tyson
Bowe
McCall
Akinwande
Witherspoon
Zolkin
Sanders
Donald
And I feel I'm giving Morrison the benefit of the doubt here in assuming he's better than Izon, Savarese, Schulz, etc.

 

Tucker was basically relevant until losing to Akinwande in 1995. Seldon was also a lock for 95 after beating Tucker. Golota also has a case for 95. And you forgot about Holmes, who would've wiped his ass with Morrison in any of these years.

 

Morrison was no different than all the other WBO Heavyweight titleholders in the early and mid 90’s. Not elite but also not terrible. Somewhere in the middle.

 

A glass cannon similar to Wilder and Shannon Briggs. Would probably put him below both in terms of levels, definetly below Wilder.