Prime Michael Moorer vs Prime Gerry Cooney

I watch him fight in the inmortal words of roger mayweather you dont know sh.t about boxing go read a ring magazine cooney a good fighter please

 

He wasn't "great" ... but neither was Michael Moorer.

And you didn't even need a pulse to give Michael Moorer a rough night. (See Vaughn Bean). Cooney didn't need his trainer to make fake phone calls to his kids and plead with him between rounds to throw punches against a soft touch like Bean.

Moorer didn't bring anything to the table to beat Cooney. Moorer couldn't move around the ring quickly, he didn't throw a lot of punches, he spent 90 percent of the round throwing one jab at a time ... his chin was bad, he stood right in front of his opponent, he pulled his protective cup up to his nipples because he couldn't take it to the body.

He was tailor made for Cooney.

 

I hear you.

Except when Cooney knocked you down early, you didn't get up to win. And Cooney wasn't short at 6'6", and Cooney had a long power jab, and Cooney had an extensive amateur pedigree, and Cooney only lost to Hall of Famers (whereas Cooper was a journeyman).

But other than that, yeah, like Bert Cooper. (LOL)

 

Who though ?

 

Everyone he knocked out. (LOL)

 

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Moorer and Norton had the horrible idea that backing into corners was the best way to deal with aggressive punchers.

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They needed to step inside and smother that power, they weren't fleet footed and couldn't move their heads to save their life, they both ultimately ended up ducking into punches they didn't see.

 

This is one way Cooney and Moorer are alike. Cooney was left-handed and fought out of the orthodox stance so his power hand was his lead left.

Moorer was actually right-handed and fought out of the southpaw stance so his power hand was his lead right.

It worked for Moorer in the light heavy division. Unfortunately, in the heavyweight class, it just made him an average-punching fighter. He only managed to stop 19 of his 35 heavyweight opponents, because he primarily just jabbed a lot.

 

None of them were as good as a prime Michael Moorer.

 

Exactly, Moorer was tailor made for Cooney.

 

When was that, exactly?

When he was getting knocked down six times in two fights against Holyfield, struggling with Vaughn Bean and Axel Shulz, getting wasted in 30 seconds by Tua, almost getting knocked out in 30 seconds by freaking Bert Cooper, getting knocked out by Foreman YEARS after Cooney had been ... or was it the nights his trainer had to beg and plead with him to throw anything but just a jab because his opponents "had something wrong with them" and Moorer still wouldn't punch because he was afraid of getting hit back?

When was this Mythical Prime of Michael Moorer?

And how the hell was he going to solve the problem Cooney brought? Was he going to back into a corner against Cooney and slug it out with him? He wouldn't slug it out with Vaughn Bean.

 

Forget the Tua fight.
This is prime Moorer :

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