Send in your ATG light heavyweight to beat Jack Dempsey

Don’t think Hopkins is strong enough to hold Dempsey off. Love his game though

 

Kovalev hasn't a clue about inside work and can't take body shots Dempsey would wreck him.Beterbiev can hit and is very strong,he is also easy to hit, and very predictable ,he ain't beating Dempsey in a shoot out. Hopkins would be on the deck claiming fouls all night.He hasnt the nuts to beat Jack.

 

Lightheavyweights seemed to do much better against Jack Dempsey than superheavyweights did!

 

Spinks would **** himself as he did with Tyson except this time he won't be nearly as big. He simply didn't have the durability (or at least the mental ability) (and that was at heavy) to take his shots. Moorer as well. His durability would let him down.

 

Interesting point, not without merit.

 

Spinks' mental fortitude is vastly underrated. That Tyson fight was a write off and isn't representative of Spinks' mental toughness IMO.

Two months before the Qawi fight, Spinks' wife had died. Grief stricken in the locker room, he had to tell his daughter that her mother was never coming back and he broke into tears in doing so. Shortly after, he'd composed himself and put on the most disciplined and probably the best performance of his career.

He was also a hard-knock kid from the bits who had a hard life from the very start.

 

I've also read that, but I can't verify it. I've also read that their dad was a deadbeat and that they had to fend for themselves and eachother for most of their childhood. Again, can't verify it, but it sounds pretty believable to me.

 

Leon was certainly more entertaining IMO. Mike was always more skilled and talented, but Leon's hyper-aggressive style was so fun to watch, and the fact he chin was pants only made him more fun. He was in like 6 closet classics.

Yeah, Leon wouldn't last a round vs Dempsey, but I can see Mike beating a slightly declined/green version.

 

Nah can't see it tbh mate. Spinks' durability at heavyweight is a bit suspect. Holmes had him a bit hurt in the rematch, and Holmes couldn't punch like Dempsey.

 

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