Prime slick tony tubbs vs prime david tua ?

Boxrec lists Tubbs as weighing only 213 lbs in second professional fight back in 1980. I can't even imagine what that must have looked like on him.

 

Tua competed for over a decade in which multiple belts were available, and title holders played musical chairs. Yet, he never once held a belt. Tubbs held a belt, beat a few previous beltholders (Page, Bonecrusher), and gave excellent heavyweights like Witherspoon and Bowe all they could handle. Witherspoon said that Tubbs had the fastest hands and feet of any fighter he faced. Tua lost every important fight of his career.

 

Absolute Prime Tubbs, in shape, would decision Tua

We're talking the Tubbs who easily decisioned Bonecrusher and won a comfortable decision over Page.

Fat Tubbs, even one still in his prime like the one who narrowly lost to Witherspoon would be vulnerable to getting caught and stopped.

I think prime Tubbs wins a comfortable decision by moving, changing direction and peppering Tua from long range. Tubbs would be smart enough also to tie Tua up whenever he got close.

Tubbs by UD.

 

Bryd fought off the ropes way too much.

Prime Tubbs is bigger and slicker

why do your neurons misfire every time people disagree with you.

Anyway, Bryd beat Tua.

 

To play devil's advocate here, It should be duly noted that Tubbs was KO'd at least three times early by LEFT HOOKS, which is Tua's signature punch. Again some of these instances came post pinnacle, but some of the men who did it were also lower level fighters than David Tua.

 

....like this thread where 9/10 pick Tubbs.:good

 

good post

That's why Tubbs would have to be in prime shape. It would be paramount he utilize his advantages over the course of the fight.

Tubbs was never stopped pre Tyson and in that fight was way overweight (238 lbs) and tried to fight Tyson on the inside.

Agianst Butler, he was over 240 lbs. and standing right in front of Butler.

The Jimmy Ellis fight - who really knows if that was legitimate or not.

 

All good points. And I concur that the Ellis fight did look rather suspicious. But there's no denying that Tubbs had a soft spot for hard left hooks, and for all his shortcomings, that was one area that Tua was sharp in.. Tony took some hard shots from Bonecrusher, showing that his chin wasn't glass, but James was a rather poor finisher and one who's signature punch was the "right." I just don't know.. I would like to see Tubbs pick up the win, but Tua's hard left hooks and Tubbs' tendency to get knocked out by them would always prevent me from placing a wager..

 

Tubbs would beat Tua, like previously mentioned 10 out of 10 times,as mentioned before. Next to Greg Page, had the best skill set of all the 80's heavyweights.

 

Huh? Page had the next best set of skills in the 1980's? No way. Holmes easily had more skill. So did Witherpsoon.

 

After Holmes, Page had the most talent. And there were things he could do that Larry and Tim couldn't. Just wasn't motivated to be in the sport of boxing, especially since his father pushed him into it.

 

Just look at how easily Rahman outboxed Tua behind a jab. Hell, journeyman Jeff Wooden fought him to a MD. Tua had no answer to a jab. None. He was more or less a journeyman in terms of skill with a strong chin and big time power. If you came at him, it was lights out. But if you played it safe, there was little he could do other than plod around and wait for his opponent to gas out, which sadly worked quite a few times in his favor. Not against an in-shape version of Tubbs though.

The version of Tubbs that beat Page wins every round against Tua and completely embarasses him.

 

He'd have to morph his style with the hard left hooking Irish heavyweight of that era.

Gerry Curley.

 

1. And Tubbs had no answer to a hard left hook upside the head

2. If you want to see someone look bad against a journeyman, check out Tubbs fight with Mike Jameson in 1987.

3. A lot of guys looked good against Greg Page and around the same time Tony fought him too.

 

Your post is biased garbage Sorry ,and i guarantee you that tons of old posters here agreed with me tons of times,they don't like my way to say the things this is very different, and sorry ,but my knowledge about boxing still is too great for you , keep trying , who knows in 10 years maybe lol