Mike Spinks vs Tommy Hearns

P4P is the question.

 

Well I have went one better, a reality prediction.

 

Cooney didn't land a meaningful punch and Holmes hurt him badly with a few right hands, one in particular to the forehead. However i'm not taking into account Spinks at Heavy.

Those guys are great hitters, but none better than Hearns P4P and Tommy is a far better and more aggressive fighter than any of them. Them not ko'ing Spinks doesn't mean he can't, as seen by a massacre of the Duran proportions.

We are talking P4P here tho, not reality. Little doubt Spinks would have murdered Hearns under normal circumstances.

 

Why? I know Tyson is some sort of Super Hero to some people - but that doesn't explain why Spinx was so easily starched. The Spinx chin is questionable at HW.

 

Hearns couldn't even beat a past prime Hagler.

 

Hagler couldn't even beat a bloated rusty coke fueled SRL

:good

 

Maybe the coke did it for him.. assuming, of course, he actually won the fight in question.

:nut

 

Checked the record books lately?

:yep

:hi:

 

Did the Hag want a rematch?

:nut

Sorry SRL's cowardice dosen't show up in records.

 

WAs Hag not getting the rematch the reason he pummelled poor Bertha? Leonards the coward here?

 

Focusing on Leonard only. Did he grant the rematch Hagler wanted? Yes or no?

 

Lifes a *****. Did Hagler grant Hearns the rematch he wanted and had been agreed to or did he run off and take the big bucks on offer for the Leonard fight?

 

Maybe, but the Hagler Leonard fight was very close.

Hagler was past it VS Leonard anyway.

 

Against Tyson, Spinks went down from a body punch, and then was KO'd by a short right to the head.

I think Spinks was not mentally or physically right for that fight, but you're right, his chin at heavyweight may not have been solid. I dont think Cooney landed on his chin.
I dont rate Larry Holmes as a KO puncher at all, in fact almost all his stoppages he looked incapable of finishing his man without the referee waving it off, sometimes controversially. Shavers, Weaver, Snipes, L.Spinks and a lot of second-raters.

 

Actually read there was talk of these two fighting back in the 80's. I think Hearns makes a fight of it until the seventh or eighth, when Spinks takes him out.