Prime Michael Moorer vs Prime Gerry Cooney

There's no "mythical prime" Moorer.
There's still prime Michael Moorer though, a guy who was far more accomplished a boxer than Cooney.

 

8:35 of that video, just too open and poor reaction to being hurt. Cooney would have finished him there.

And here...

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Moorer backing up again and dipping into punches.

 

And he won those fights.

 

And Gerry Cooney was no Alex "so scared I fall down before I get hit" Stewart, either. There was nothing about their size, styles, basically anything that was similar.

The only fighter who put Cooney down for the count was ONE GUY, George Foreman.

That's it.

 

He gets in trouble like that against Cooney, he won't. I can't see him out lasting Cooney in a shoot out like he did Stewart and Cooper. Stewart had Moorer badly rocked and on the ropes, Cooper has Moorer down multiple times. He gets trapped by Cooney like that it's curtains.

 

I agree.

If nothing else Cooney was one of the best finishers the division has produced. When he got to you, it was over.

And he'd get to Moorer.

Got to go. Have a good day.

 

Alex Stewart gave a prime Holyfield a very tough fight.
Alex Stewart gave old Foreman a very tough fight.
The only man who wiped out Alex Stewart easily was Mike Tyson, and I wouldn't fancy Cooney's chances against Tyson.
Alex Stewart is about on Cooney's level.

Go on pretending Cooney's record is something great. You might fool someone, who knows.

 

This PLUS Foreman wasn't exactly improving as his career stretched into his mid 40s.

When the 40 year old George fought Cooney, Foreman was in the midst of a 20 fight winning streak. When the 45-year-old George fought Moorer, Foreman had lost two of his last five fights.

Gotta go now.

 

I'm not claiming an easy/early win for Moorer or bigging up his KO wins.

People starting with all this "when Cooney had you hurt you were finished", "you can't get up and win" stuff is silly, because that's based on a few wins over has-beens and third-raters.
People should accept that fact that Moorer was a better class of fighter and that is relevant.

I wouldn't necessarily assume Cooney could beat an injury/ill Holyfield, or take apart an in-shape Alex Stewart.

Well, another big difference is Moorer gave Foreman a very hard fight for almost 10 rounds, Cooney didn't make it out of the second round.

 

"Is about" is wrong. Gerry never went life and death with freaking Ezra Sellers.

Cooney only lost to Hall of Famers. Cooney beat Ken Norton (who is a hall of famer and was coming off a win over rated Tex Cobb). Cooney tore Jimmy Young's (who was coming off a win over British champ John L. Gardner ... a Jimmy Young who would become highly ranked again AFTER losing to Cooney) face off.

Who was the best fighter Stewart actually beat? I don't think he ever beat a ranked heavyweight EVER. Anyone in the Hall of Fame?

Not unless Jamie Howe is working the door at the Hall of Fame.

 

Jesus. Okay. I'm done.

 

He gave Holyfield a tough fight. He had Holyfeld backing up at one point. He took a lot of shots, yes.
He wasn't in the least how Dubblechin described him, which was quite disrespectfully, imo.