More skilled: Thomas Hearns or Lennox Lewis

Tommy's elite feinting is another aspect of his game that doesn’t get brought up much. Mark Breland mentioned it was one of Tommy's best weapons as he used it to get the better of him every time they sparred. This video breaks it down very well along with Tommy's other elite qualities.

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Absolutely!! Hearns feinting vs Benitez was elite.

 

You mean someone was actually doing "Check hook's "
or as we called them, lead or counter hooks,
and pull counters prior to Floyd Mayweather Jr?

 

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Hearns developed/settled in mid career with a devastating counter left hook to the body, and the quick 1, 2 , left hook to the body

 

Subject to more popular criteria and instinctive perceptions, the best of the big men will always lose out to the best of the small men when it comes down to interpretations and comparisons of their respective skillsets.

Just imo, skillsets aren’t so easily or at least completely divorced from related size.

Even P4P greats in smaller weight divisions begin to drop in P4P ratings as they progress through higher weight divisions without necessarily having experienced any erosion in their perceived stand alone skills - if those skills can ever be viewed absolutely as stand alone.

The big men rarely receive credit in balance for the translation of their skillsets via their much larger and more difficult to manage bodies.

Sure, some of the larger fighters. might be described as moving very well “for a big man”…but that’s about it.

Their skill sets are still measured in absolute terms while the smaller fighters benefit from all the relative measurements otherwise.

The best analogy I can come up with atm - and that’s not to say that it’s perfectly ideal - is the transference of the extreme driving skills of an elite F1 driver.

Same skillset first applied to the F1 racing vehicle of choice and then applied to the extreme operations of, say, a Mack truck with trailer.

Quite obviously, the same driving skillset will be far better translated through the F1 car than the much larger and heavier Mack Truck and trailer.

So, how a fighters skill set sits contextually within their own division of like sized fighters is at least one metric that’s perhaps more legit than comparing lighter vs heavier skill sets H2H in absolute terms.