How Long Would Tommy Morrison Last Against Prime Brown Bomber??

How would that happen?

 

Gee, oh, I don't know, the same way other, worse fighters than Morrison had Louis eating canvas?

 

Louis pummels him in 4. Looks like a more competitive version of the Galento fight, but ends in a similar manor & amount of rounds.

 

Ray Mercer almost decapitated Tommy and then got easily outboxed by a 40 year old holmes. I dont wanna hear it

 

Oh, is this how it works? Louis was knocked down 6 times, and sparked prime by Schmelling and past prime by Marciano. He was a notorious slow starter and Tommy was the archetypal fast starter...and a very good finisher. I find it very unlikely that Morrison could beat Louis, but far from impossible.

 

Yeah. People have a bad habit on this forum of instantly favouring the greater and more consistent fighter instead of thinking stylistically. Tommy is superior to Galento in basically every way. Even with Louis winning it wouldn't be 'easy' for him as people posit.

 

Louis was not prime vs Schmeling he'd only been a pro for 2 years and improved significantly after that loss.

Also Schmeling had a sneaky right hand and Louis was vulnerable to it at that time I don't really see the revelance to Schmeling and Morrison's left hook.

You're talking about a fighter than went life and death with two journeyman fighters Joe Hipp, Ross Puritty. Was floored 3 times by a completely past it Carl Williams And got absolutely dismantled by Mercer, Bentt.

Morrison was exciting and had some good traits like his power and combination punching. But he was only briefly ranked in the top 10 and he's simply not on Louis's level.

Morrison may give Louis 1 or 2 scares early and may score a flash knockdown. But in the end Louis would absolutely pummel Morrison and stop him by the mid rounds.

 

Pretty much how I see it man. But I can't rule out Morrison stopping Louis. Which is what I said. Unlikely but not impossible. Louis has almost impeccable consistency, one attribute Morrison missed out on. But, Louis WAS a slow starter, and Tommy came out the blocks for a 50 yard dash, not a marathon...and he hits like a ton of bricks. Yeah, we're taking perfect storm here but Louis was not invlunerable, he could be hurt, and Marciano aside, I think Morrison is a bigger hitter and better finisher than any of the other fighters who hurt the Bomber...

 

I just used the same logic as the person i replied to, so take that same energy to him. And to say that a 28 year old rocky was past his prime is ridiculous

 

Whose alt is this I wonder?

 

I meant the 37 year old Louis was past his prime. Should never have been in the ring with Marciano. I don't believe in this 'but he went x rounds with y, and y beat z so etc...'. Every fight needs looked at, analysed on its own merits and for fantasy fights it's the best of x, ie the best possible, v a similar allowance for y. Louis brutally stops Tommy is the sensible conclusion, of course it is. But to discredit Morrison in a fantasy fight because of his bad nights holds as little water as doing the same with Louis, which was the point I had hoped to make.

Looking at both fighters attributes, is there a chance Tommy pulls off a huge upset. For me, absolutely. A chance. A slim chance. But perceived wisdom rightly suggests Louis take a leaf outta Tony's book and 'moiders da bum'....

 

When I think about these match ups I take each fighter as he was, not how the one who fought in the 90s would have been 60 years ago or how the one who fought in the 30s would have been 60 years in the future. An "enhanced", 6-2, 225-30 pound fighter who is faster than anybody the older fighter ever met in the ring and who throws hard combinations might well beat the old legend. I'm not taking the "enhancements" away from one fighter or giving them to another who never had the same access, I'm taking the fighters just as they were when they were fighting. I think that a well trained fighter with enhancements is going to be favored over a well trained fighter who is not enhanced.

If you are taking into consideration who was the more dominant and consistent fighter in his era, there is no doubt it is Louis, but he never fought anyone like Morrison in the 30s-40s.

 

Agree 100%. Still feel Louis weathers an early storm and stops Tommy after eight rounds. But yes, I also picture the best version of either fighter, not some temporally adapted one

 

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Schmeling was a better finisher.
Nova and Baer were big hitters.

 

If you put a gun to my head, I think that Louis would be wary enough of Morrisons power that he would want to get him out of there early, and that he would probably be capable of doing it.

This thread is not very flattering to Morrison, but if Louis tried for an early night against an opponent, it was almost a compliment.