Frank Bruno Beats Layne,Lastarza,Mathews,C*ckell

No. Bruno was behind on all 3 scorecards 99-96, 98-96, and 97-94. Witherspoon also showed up to the Bruno fight looking fat and out of shape with man booobs. The fact Bruno couldn't beat this version of spoon shows his limitations as a fighter

 

Sure,

But Layne beat Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles. Layne beat better fighters than Bruno ever did.

 

You brought the math into it, lay in the bed you made.

Bigger but not better, and by bigger...Bruno.

 

I can post a Layne one punch KO too, and it wouldn't be against a big Swedish C lister either.

Speaking of Satterfield, he would probably have put a beating on Bruno like he did Big Cat, Valdez, Holman, Baker, and all those big muscular guys he could beat to the punch.

 

And a fat Spoon, and a Bonecrusher

Bruno only lost to the best...

And the next tier down...

And the next tier down..


But he sure showed McCall

 

He wasn't intimidated by Smith or Witherspoon and actually did a number on them for a while before getting caught with huge bombs late - something I doubt would happen against Layn, Lastarza, Mathews or Don C. And Witherspoon was in my book the #3 best heavyweight of the 80's and a top 40 all time.

 

When you start believing that Rex Layne hit as hard as Timmy Witherspoon, you have truly entered the realm of sport as fantasy fiction.

 

Prove which HW with the same money punch and KO ratio against similar comp level hit the hardest.

I suppose Spoon had bigger ****s and that in theory could generate more force.

I await your irrefutable evidence,

 

He wasn't intimidated by Tyson or Lewis either. And boxed well too before....you know they stated swinging back at him. Unless you were a no show MCCall, Bruno seemed to lose every time he stepped up from the fringe...in the same way.

And maybe LaStarza or Matthews could outbox Bruno..all three seemed to be protected from such match ups that might prove something.

I would say Layne would be throwing right hand bombs early and late.

There is a huge gap between the 80s top two and the number 3. Especially when this number 3 had weight problems And had trouble winning big fights that could have set him from the Pinklons, Pages, and ... And What number is The Bonecrusher?

 

They were swinging back at him from the very start.

And getting caught with plenty of them himself. Tyson, Lewis, Smith and Witherspoon managed to survive, though being rocked a few times.. Could a 190 lbs man who was twice KO'd by the 186 lbs Earl Walls?

Well that "huge gap" didn't stop #3 from giving #1 fits in a fight that some people felt #3 won and despite only having 15 fights. #3 wasn't afraid to take on the challengers that #1 ducked and even threw a title away in the process. And when #2 finally came along, there were rumors that Don King didn't want him in the ring with #3.. Interesting how a perceived "huge gap" can be misleading.

I'll give you the numbers on Bonecrusher. He was 6'5", 230 lbs heavyweight who survived the power of Mike Tyson, Frank Bruno, Tim Witherspoon, Mike Weaver and Michael Moorer among others, fought until the near age of 50 and stopped 32 of his 44 victims. Is Layne beating him too with " huge right hands?"

 

Layne was forced into the Walls fight after being bed ridden from the flu. Layne did what Big Cat, Baker, and lots of big heavies couldn't and survive flush bombs from Satterfield. Sattetfield knocked out more class 200 lbers than Bruno.

Spoon never lived up to the promise of the Holmes fight. And Holmes was already on borrowed time...the hotel business was calling.

No, Layne is beating Bonecrusher on points

 

Must have been a hell of a flu bug to last for two months because he got KO'd again by Walls in the rematch and then again by the 12-1 Tommy Jackson several months after that.. Bad luck I guess.

Yeah surviving a 180 lb guy with a 44% KO average must have been like storming the beaches of Normandy, while facing a 6'3" 230 lb Bruno with an 84% ko average is a walk in the park. You're right. Lord Layne isn't getting scratched.

He captured two world titles, one of which by beating one of Holmes' mandatories along with beating about 80% of the decade's best fighters. He was ranked by the ring magazine for a combined 11 years and was in their top five for about 8 of them. His career might have gone further had it not been derailed by a certain wild haired promoter. How much "promise" was he supposed to live up to?

Well apparently Holmes and Hilton couldn't strike a deal right away because the hotel business got put on hold for another two and half years and 7 world title fights after a 15 fight Witherspoon with a short amateur career gave him one of the best fights of his life.

And the plot thickens...So now Layne has magically transformed from a " big puncher who takes guys out with huge right hands," to a boxer who will out class and outpoint a man twice his size..