At 154 lbs as Maurice fought exlusively at this weight whereas Herol campaigned at this one and 160. I say Herol wins a competitive bout on points. His unorthodox skills take it for him.
At the late 80's, early 90's, it wasn't easy to be between 154-168 when you had guys like McCallum, Toney, Jones, Hopkins, Nunn, Benn, Kalambay, McClellan, Eubank, Watson, Jackson, Johnson, Littles, Liles, etc... Hope was good and solid, but Graham fought in the toughest era for being a 154-160-168 fighter. I pick Graham by decision in an easy fight.
A comfortable points win for the bomber. Hope would be hard pressed to land clean scoring punches as Graham was elusive as any of them.
Shame Herol never became World Champion. A little higher workrate would have seen him through against Mike McCallum who was a great fighter and I suppose the shot that Graham got poleaxed with after dominating the Julian Jackson bout would have got a lot of boxers out of there.
