22 years ago: Faumuina To'aletai David Mafaufau Sita "Tuaman" Tua vs. Michael Lee "Double M" Moorer

I never seen this before, I know it was before this but tua is always relevant to me because of the bout with Ibeabuchi was poetic brutality, one of my favourite heavyweight wars still watch it every now and again.
His chin was hof material.

 

This fight was a huge mistake for Moorer. He was pretty carefully matched at hw for the most part. Odd that his handlers just decided to throw in their chinny fighter with Tua when he was already on the decline.

 

Who was Moorer's trainer for this fight?

 

Tua KOd

John Ruiz
Hasim Rahman
Michael Moorer
Oleg Maskaev

All of them became HW champions but Tua never got a strap himself

Crazy

 

This is the meaning of getting run over.

When a fighter is so much stronger and physically dominant, that nothing can help you overcome it.

 

Even on Moorer's best day, I think he still gets bombed out by Tua. Look at how much damage Bert Cooper was able to do to him until Moorer pulled the fight out w/ a sudden desperation flurry. In fact, he was very lucky not to be stopped in the very 1st round in almost the exact same manner.

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Emanuel Steward said Moorer had million dollar ability and a ten cent brain. Moorer also had problems with alcohol his entire career that they were able to keep quiet in the beginning.

 

The old adages bad timing and styles make fights.

 

I used to love tua..limited but such a wrecking ball..feel like he ****ed himself over with his weight gain...no idea if it was muscle or fat but when he was around 225 pounds he was so explosive....then when he was around 245 he was so sluggish... but **** the bed that left....thing of beauty

 

Lol that ref looked like Tor Johnson from Plan 9 from Outer Space.

 

He's a big boy now Johnny.

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