How good was Herbie Hide?

Definitely gifted with speed and power, but not very skilled

 

He was useless.

 

He had some talent and was light on his feet for a heavy

Totally unstable and unintelligent though

 

Bennt and Bowe both said they'd never been hit harder in their career than against Hide. He was a naturally explosive guy with rapid hand speed. His problems were a complete and utter lack of ability to relax in the ring and punch resistance that made Amir Khan look like George Chuvalo. Always good to watch though, win or lose.

 

Bowe just doesn't want to give credit to Holyfield. Lmao.

 

Never seen a more nervous and tense fighter in the ring than Herbie Hide, even against Michael Bentt he looked a wide eyed nervous wreck.
At HW he had ATG handspeed, serious power and as others have said he could punch from all angles (think he trained at the Brendan Ingle gym so that was probably were it came from) but his defence consisted of leaning back with his chin in the air or clinching, add in his glass jaw and he was always a KO waiting to happen against anyone who could time and clip him.

 

Trained at Matchroom Gym with Freddie King. Sparred Eubank in 1989 Summer and it was better than any fight you've ever seen according to King.

 

Suffered from stage fright issues. Looked like a guy standing in front of a firing squad against Bowe who forgot to ask for the blindfold.

 

He was fragile, simply not durable enough despite his gifts.

 

Not very.

 

Agreed, Gil Clancy said a fighter who can't relax burns energy at twice the normal rate and tires out, added to this is a tense fighter can't take a good shot.

 

He doesnt really have any quality wins, he clearly hits very hard though. I'd put him about the level of a Pierre Coetzer.

 

There was some potential there. But it was never fully developed. But yes he had some tools. He was fit, strong, hard punching and could move around more fluidly than given credit for.

 

To be fair to him, he did have a go at Bowe and in Bowes own words he "Hide" was one punch away from stopping me.