Chavez or Hearns? Who would be the mainevent in the 2011 IBHOF Induction

Chavez is a hero and a legend. People remember him with emotion and pride. And that's why he wins this poll and any other poll.



Hearns wasn't a hero. He was an assassin.



Who gives a **** which one will have the most nuthuggers... Any of you Chavez voters care to speculate what would happen H2H between these two? Exactly.

 

Look I like Meldrick Taylor, but he was not ATG. He was good and HOF, but not great. Even with Meekins and McGirt he was busted up, and he dominated them. Well when Chavez fought Whitaker he lost. He was still doing well at the time and was 87-0. How can you make much of an excuse for 87-0?

 

Stop it.


When you do anything less than heap eternal praise on someone like Chavez, people assume you are being hateful or stupid.


I just wish he had fought the Hitman at some point. And we wouldn;t even be having this conversation.

 

Hearns.

 

Whitaker are so overated here by the americans ... thats a fact

 

Who cares really. They are both ATGs of a very similar level/standing.

 

Agree 100%.

 

You hit the nail. Good post.

 

chavez is a legend, an icon...a man of few words but many rounds of leather teflon for anyone and anybody willing to trade with him and step in that squared circle...

tommy is a warrior, one of them type of fighters that come around pretty often, but not quite....but he didnt have a whold country behind him, he was sort of like the villain of the boxing game....a bad man indeed, but not on the level of chavez sr...

 

"Not on the level" as in legendary status? If that's what you mean, then I agree.


But as far as in the ring... Hearns would whip his ass...

 

Of course he had the whole country behind him. He was the face of Mexican boxing and had no peer. Hearns had many great peers and ATG's around him at the time SRL, Hagler, Pryor and Holmes just to name a few. Doesn't mean Hearns is any less of a boxer for it. He just comes from a country with a richer boxing tradition and shouldn't be penalized for that.

 

I don;t think anyone is trying to take anything away from Hearns as a boxer... At least I hope not... Cause we all know Hearns would whip his ass...:deal

Don't we?

 

I agree.

Hearns was a legit once in a lifetime talent true ATG one-shot KO power sick boxing skills and a heart of a lion. He was an absolute terror in his prime who would dominate in any era.

 

u'r kidding right......
i dont think anybody in their right mind would ever even talk about chavez sr and tommy in the ring....

tommy is too big and too strong.....

 

mexico has had a lot of great fighters, even in the chavez era there was many, just too small to get recognized.....but to be a lightweight and hold all that weight on your shoulders around that time was great.....remember, he not only had greats from mexico, but he came up around the tyson era too :good