Dick Tiger vs Tommy Hearns

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  1. DFW

    DFW Active Member Full Member

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    Who takes this one? Tiger is tougher and stronger and Hearns boxes better and hits harder. My feeling is that at 160 Dick Tiger wins this one. As hard as Tommy cranks those right hand bombs I think Dick can take them and wear down Hearns possibly stopping him later on in a war.
     
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  2. the cobra

    the cobra Awesomeizationism! Full Member

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    I've never liked picking Tommy over proven great Middleweights. Tiger could be outboxed I suppose, and wasn't a devastating hitter, but I think he pressures Tommy and breaks him down physically over a long fight, probably stopping in the last few rounds.
     
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  3. El Bujia

    El Bujia Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I think Tiger was a very damaging puncher. Very deceptive KO percentage.
     
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  4. MAG1965

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    Hearns was best when he knew his challenge and prepared for it mentally. I think he stops Tiger in 8.
     
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  5. PhillyPhan69

    PhillyPhan69 Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    That is a surprise...I mean I didn't see that comin'!
     
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  6. El Bujia

    El Bujia Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    :roflYou just get worse and worse. Tiger's chin was made of titanium. It took the hardest hitting Lt. Heavyweight of all time to crack it 15 pounds above his natural weight. I'm not even sure he was ever rocked particularly badly apart from that and the flash Griffith knockdown. And many of the guys he fought were bigger hitters than Hearns at Middleweight.
     
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  7. abraq

    abraq Active Member Full Member

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    At 160 pounds Tiger would win.
     
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  8. KOTF

    KOTF Bingooo Full Member

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    Tiger wins a decision, or late TKO

    What about a match-up at LHW
     
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  9. MAG1965

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    Hearns is being underrated at middleweight. The problem with Tommy is that when he fought at middleweight he was always moving up and down in weight not get set at the weight. I should have said I think it would end in 8th round TKO.
     
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  10. itrymariti

    itrymariti Cañas! Full Member

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    Well Tiger certainly was no Briscoe... :patsch
     
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  11. laxpdx

    laxpdx Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Tiger would've put Hearns in the hospital. Nothing against Tommy but his weaknesses would only be too exploitable in this one.
     
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  12. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    If we see the Tiger of the third Fullmer fight, it would not bode well for Hearns. He cannot risk an overly cautious approach against Hearns though.
     
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  13. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    :deal..yes he was a damaging puncher...as Rubin Carter would have to admit..but as Tiger aged, he became more conservative...going for decisions more and more. I think he would have been too strong for Hearns..he would have ground out a unanimous decision over 15..being much stronger than Tommy in the last 5 rounds.
     
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  14. red cobra

    red cobra Loyal Member Full Member

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    No damned way.
     
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  15. TheGreatA

    TheGreatA Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Tiger devastates Fullmer:

    [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uJZWZnahmY[/ame]
     
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