John L Sullivan vs Prime David Tua

Three fights, all incomplete but long enough to see how Gans fought.

 

Which ones?
In which ones does Gans resemble Mayweather?

 

Battling Nelson
Terry McGovern
Kid Herman

To me he didn't fight like Mayweather, but he looks very modern, more than someone like Jack Dempsey.

 

Tua throws that abomination of a left hook at Sullivan and...wait, Tua stops midway through connecting it to the already horrified Sullivan and talks him about having a glass of some beer after.

 

I'd rather watch Sullivan fight Kimbo Slice in somebody's backyard.

 

John L Sullivan lasts against Tua about as long as Obed Sullivan. Another KO1

 

Love to see this fight tho.

 

Depends on how Sullivan approaches the fight, he would go nowhere rushing trying to take Tua's head off given the latter's durability against larger punchers but if he takes the more measured stalking approach like he did against Kilrain and Mitchell in their rematch it's a more winnable fight for him. Sullivan was (probably) faster given his comparisons to Dempsey and imo had ATG toughness despite an unknown chin, there's a lot of what ifs like how Sullivan would handle a 12 rounder with such a pace like Tua dishes out but given the fact that he was the one pushing the pace in fights that lasted hours I could see him adapting well.

 

Right , why bother with size, speed, level of opposition and styles .. the physically prime Sullivan of 82 -84 was under 190 pounds and he fought , M of Q novices close to his size at heavyweight .. let's make predictions like we actually had important funds on it ... shesssh.

 

I see that my previous observations were lost on you.

 

Tua within seconds.

 

I always wondered how this myth of needing to outbox Tua and that it's impossible to brawl with him persists when we have film of him losing a brawl to Ike.

I'm not a Sullivan defender, but I thought I'd just throw that out there. Tua has whole rounds where he just goes through the motions almost sleep walking and not showing a whole lot of gumption or attempting to come up with a solution to a problem he needs to solve aside from just "hit him harder".