Frank Bruno v Tommy Morrison

Not really. Morrison's chin was actually worse than Bruno's. Bruno could hang in there and take some good shots early in a fight whereas Morrison would get knocked on his ass at any stage.
I think Morrison gets knocked out in this one.

 

I honestly wouldn't be too confident in picking either man, but you have to go with Bruno. He never came off nearly as vulnerable as Morrison did. Could end up looking like the Mercer fight with Morrison boxing well only to suddenly fall apart defensively and crumble.

 

Me neither really. I wouldnt be suprised if Morrison stopped Bruno either but if I was betting Id go with Bruno. Morrison was pretty good landing that hook on opponents who stood tall like Bruno but his power and stamina seemed to go down hill just as quickly as Brunos.

 

If it goes past the early rounds, it would likely turn into a scrappy fight with Bruno clinching and mauling and Morrison trying to win with sheer heart.

 

limited strong fighters...I'll go the safest route and pick the black guy to win.

 

yeah i think bruno would be the one to box and make use of his pole of a jab which would i agree would give him the edge but this is for me a really good match up and hard to predict , early morrison later bruno this may sound daft as bruno did gas at times but the longer it went the more bruno's better jab could wear morrison down and dampen morrisons fighting spirit also morrison's own stamina was not that great either

 

Tommy did get up to stop Carl Williams and Razor Ruddock. That he could do this may be critical here. If Jumbo Cummings had stunned Frank at the outset of round one, instead of the very end, boxing history might have changed radically. That would have easily been the worst defeat sustained by either man. (Of course we never got to find out how good or bad Bentt might have ultimately become.) Assuming both got hurt, Morrison's ability to survive a crisis is slightly more proved based on Williams and Ruddock.

No conviction on that outcome though. Only a buyer of the Brooklyn Bridge would contemplate a bet on something like this.

 

Which we all know is BS. We've had white heavyweight champs coming out of our ass, as many as 4 at one time since Gerry Coetzee broke the white champ draught when he Ko'd Mike dokes. We've had an army of white champs since then, including Morrison also and no one gives a ****.

 

That "Great White Hope" tag is really an American thing though, jingoistic. It was not widely applied to Chuvalo, Bonavena or Bugner, at least not in the States. Actually, I don't know that the term could truly be applied to any heavyweight since Cooney, even Morrison. (Tommy was not ever the recipient of the kind of hype Gerry got, even after beating Foreman.) Sad to say, but a white Tyson who consolidates all heavyweight title claims might be necessary to revive mainstream US interest in boxing, provided he was a killer like Mike or Dempsey. (If the primes of Tunney and Louis had intersected in the early 1930s, I suspect the general white public may have been rooting for Joe over fancy Dan intellectual stylist Gene, even in that climate. As it was, many did want Dempsey to defend against Wills.)

 

I'd like Frank's chances if the bout took place in Wembley. If Bruno has to take his act on the road & fight in America, I like Morrison.

It's a pretty even fight and the road warrior is going to be at a disadvantage in this.

 

Zad, with all due respect, I believe that's questionable reasoning. Both Bonecrusher and Spoon stopped Frank at Wembley, and only two of Bruno's 45 fights went the limit. Tommy was also at a homecoming in Oklahoma when the Bentt disaster occurred. Whatever reasoning is used to try arriving at any tenuous conclusion about how this one might turn out, their respective histories do not really support location as any substantial kind of advantage or disadvantage. This one's coming down to how they respond to getting hit, and very possibly who gets nailed first.

 

In fact the added pressure of performing for the hometown crowd could work against them. Bruno could suffer from nervousness, as a result tiring himself out, and Morrison took the Bentt fight for granted.