Floyd Mayweather vs Thomas Hearns - 147

For this fight, Floyd Mayweather would take a three year training camp, pumping himself with countless foreign chemicals of questionable legality and scoffing at least 6 boars testicles a day, with two prayers to Ares, the patron god of TMT, a day finishing off his training sessions (with an extra prayer to Poseidon to stop himself drowning in fear during the night). Entering the ring, kissing his lucky fortune amulet and then beginning the bout at the sound of the gong, Money May goes to work. Performing his best, highly practised impression of Roberto Duran, Mickey Walker, Iran Barkley and Mike Tyson all rolled into one, the May man whizs out of his corner bobbing and weaving 100 times per second. Of course, the pitiful, humanly limited Thomas Hearns cannot discern these movements whilst Mayweather prepares his attack, and stands there dumbfounded. The sheer rotation and gravitational force Money Maymay produces allow his hooks to generate enough power to actually, possibly, score a knockout punch of 147lbs calibre. 4 seconds into the bout and Hearns is getting destroyed, friction marks searing into his body from taking 100 moneymakers and shoulderrollders within 0.5 seconds. However, due to the force of his attack, Money has quite literally begun to char and melt, his big, bald bonce being the first to suffer this devastating horror. His hands suffer next, and only smouldering stumps of glove are left to attack. 10 seconds into the bout, and Money has almost entirely disintegrated to reveal a gleaming golden skeleton with the inscription 'trademark Leonard Ellerbe, kiss kiss' seared within. Of course, Money cannot attack anymore. 12 seconds in, Hearns musters the entirety of his strength to land one right handed misslie on the gleaming monument of misfortune. Apparently, Emanuel Steward could be heard repeating 'Oh my God!' hundreds of times for hours after this event, next to Jim Lampley crying mournfully whilst Larry Merchant laughs hysterically. All in all, a good PPV for $666.66, but ESB still complained about the undercard.

Hearns KO1, 12 seconds.

 

You are either trolling or very dumb.

I never said that Hearns was unbeatable at that weight. Leonard showed that he wasn't.

I never said that Mayweather was easy to hit in general. Just that Hearns would not have found it too difficult because of the style match-up.

You are a fanboy.

 

To be fair I did say he would start out defensively and as Hearns tired in the later rounds which he did Mayweather would switch to a more aggressive style which he did plenty in his career. Obviously his firepower is not on the level of SRL but he was extremely accurate and could really pick his spots well when he wanted to switch gears.

 

All of this could have been said about Duran who was a better boxer than Mayweather.

Guess what? Duran got smashed.

 

How was it pointless aggression, IF he was AWARDED the rounds?

Floyd covered up a lot, and Oscar threw and landed shots.

He was awarded points for that.

Floyd didn’t win rounds where he covered up and let Oscar unload on him.

That happened frequently in the fight.

Oscar also troubled Floyd with the jab.

It was a close fight until Floyd clearly pulled away at the end.

It was certainly a hard enough fight for him to turn down millions of dollars for a rematch.

It was a hard win.


Thomas Hearns was superior to Oscar in every way.

Yet you guys are under the illusion that Floyd would have won a decision by fighting offensively against him.

It just goes against everything that we actually saw in real time.

Your analysis is based on what you would have wanted to have happened, but not on what would realistically have happened, based upon all of the available evidence that we have to hand.

 

If you fought some of the stiffs he fought, you would be considered a defensive savate

What weight did they fight at again?

 

Nope , never suggested Floyd had to fight outside of his regular style. Floyd just needs to fight the way he does, why change your whole style ?

 

What??

Diego Corrales had the SAME reach as Floyd.

He had above average boxing skills?

Ha!

Yeah.

Thomas Hearns had GREAT boxing skills and a HUGE 78” reach.


Why have you even typed up this nonsense?


I said that Floyd never even saw anybody that was comparable to a prime version of Thomas Hearns.

He fought nobody who had Hearns’ size, skills and power.

Yet you have come forward and put up Diego Corrales, who was 5’10, with a 70” reach, and who didn’t have anywhere near as much ability.

Pointless.

Diego Corrales didn’t even resemble Thomas Hearns.

Stop being silly.

They didn’t even share any similarities.


Floyd made light work of Corrales, which would have meant that he’d have beaten Hearns??

Fighting Corrales told us NOTHING about how a match up with Hearns would have played out?

Different fighters, different sizes, different attributes.

I’m baffled.


Wilfredo Benitez was at least very comparable to Floyd.


Floyd had a great defence. But we keep telling you that to beat Hearns on a decision, he’d have needed to have fought very offensively in order to have won the majority of the rounds. But the trouble with that, is in doing so, he’d have left himself vulnerable to Hearns’ arsenal coming from a 78” reach.

 

Personally he wouldn't have beaten prime ODH in my opinion. The Delohoya he faced was clearly not the same fighter that he was some 6-7 yrs prior. When he was at his best.
He was doing what took its toll on him. Retire , party, fight. Same thing that took its toll on R. Leonard.

 

And Tommy never faced anyone with a similar style as Floyd who was on that level, so what exactly is your point

 

Do you even read the posts?


It’s not just reach.

It’s not just power.

It’s reach AND power, along with skills and a huge difference in size.

A complete package.


We know that Floyd beat guys who had lots of power.

We know that Floyd beat people who possessed a reach advantage over him.

This is not new information to us.

What we’re saying is, Floyd never fought or beat ANYBODY who had BOTH of those attributes TOGETHER, as well as the overall ability that Hearns had.


Putting forward Corrales was completely pointless.

Apart from having good power, he didn’t share any other attributes that Hearns possessed.


We have dismissed your example of Diego Corrales, simply because it is completely IRRELEVANT.

 

Nobody has said that Hearns was unbeatable.

We have only said that Floyd wouldn’t have beaten him due to how they’d have matched up stylistically.

Yes, Floyd would have been easily hit by point scoring shots, by a guy who had great speed and a huge reach.

 

Stylistic nightmare for Mayweather, he has very very little chance of winning this fight

 

A 6 inch reach advantage.

 

Okay.

But why in this fantasy match up is Hearns tiring?

It’s a defensive Floyd Mayweather fighting a chess match against another great fighter in Thomas Hearns.

A slow paced fight.

No pressure or aggression from Floyd.

A tactical fight.

Hearns didn’t have stamina issues like Oscar.

Hearns only wilted against strength, pressure and power.

Floyd wouldn’t have brought that.

Floyd’s output would have been low, as he’d have been concerned about the jab and the huge power that Hearns possessed.

There’s no reason to believe that Hearns would have gassed like he did against Leonard.

So let me ask you this:

What if Hearns hadn’t have gassed?

Then what?