Billy Joe Saunders vs Iran Barkley primes

Hearns wasn’t an A+ win. His chin was a liability at 160 and he was pretty washed up for the rematch and at the wrong weight. Roldan almost did what Barkley did.

It’s not really a resume comparison. Barkley has a long history of struggling with and losing to counterpunchers and it’s unlikely that he’d ko BJS.

 

He was past his best.

How was he washed up though?

He beat Virgil Hill.

 

Top five or higher at 154. Maybe top 100 at 175.

 

You said he was washed up.

 

I did. Did he even ko anyone good up there?

 

A washed up fighter beat Virgil Hill?

 

Hill should be embarrassed.

 

You should be embarrassed.

 

I actually liked Virgil Hill in that all he had was a jab and movement and through dedication to his craft was able to become a World Champion.
I think the magnitude of the fight really messed with Hill and while I do not think the outcome would have changed I think Hill would have performed much better.
It amazes me that people are taken aback by Tommy Loughran who was a master boxer with a rapier jab and Hill was basically the same type boxer but gets labeled as "boring".