I've considered it. I started doing these after Wilson Kayden got taken down over copyright issues. It seems like a can of worms I'd rather not open.
Great footwork as well, but he suffered from Roy Jones syndrome. Would have been a perfect fighter if he only had a chin.
Excellent analysis as always keep up the great work. If Hearns was around today man he would be unstopable.
Not so. GGG would murder him due to his poor defence and weak chin. Only when he had massive height and reach advantages was hearns really deadly. Take those away and he could be very vulnerable.
Hearns wasnt a technically sound overall boxer. He relied on height reach and explosiveness. GGG has better defence and better fundamentals. Better chin. GGG would destroy hearns unless hearns managed to blast him out in first 2-3 rounds like hedid small men like Cuevas and Duran. Like he tried - and failed to do with Hagler.
GGG has not beat anyone of note to lead me to believe he would beat Hearns. I'd pick Hearns in a heartbeat over GGG at 160. Hearns unlike GGG dared to be great and moved up in weight several times. Hearns is a legend and 100000 light years beyond GGG.
I lived thru the Hearns era - and he was and is one of my favourite fighters to watch. But anyone with sound skills and technical fundamentals, physical toughness/chin and not too undersized has a chance against Hearns. Hearns had many defensive flaws and physical fragilities. GGG has all the required qualities in plenty and I would favour him to beat Thomas.
Well since he won something like 350 out of 355 as an amateur and is ko ing literally everyone as a pro I'd say we already HAVE seen what he is made of, wouldnt you?
A great read! I read somewhere, Manny Steward said when he first saw Hearns, he was totally raw, but Manny had spotted his potential and molded him from the ground up into the ATG fighter he became. Almost unbelievably, Hearns only stopped a dozen or so of his amateur opponents, but Manny gave him the technique to become a power puncher.