The Young HIGHLY dangerous David Tua

That he is.

Even much heavier then he should of been in recent years, and much slower, the fact that he was so hard to hit was amazing.

Great shoulder blocking.

 

That clip was so satisfying.

 

WOW he looks amazing....the biggest underachiever of the era. never picked up a belt despite knocking out multiple time heavyweight champions maskaev, rahman, ruiz. Tua would have slaughtered the klits. He rates high on my heavyweight list, by far the 4th best swarmer heavyweight in history after marciano,dempsey, frazier. He would lose to corrie sanders though, tua couldnt handle super southpaws with speed and power.

 

I agree,

Sanders would whale on a lot fighters like Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, Cleveland Williams, Zora Folley, Eddie Machen, and Archie Moore.

Ingo Would beat him though..

 

Why did Bellocchi fight him again afterwards?

At least he got rid of that silly hair cut.

 

Maricano too.

Just too small!

 

Bellocchi II is even a better Tua performance in my opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFA-XG5Oio&feature=related

 

:good

 

Very nice shoulder blocking and good fundamentals by Tua in the first bout... I especially like how in the first bout just before he put Bellocchi down for the last time he gets inside Bellocchi's range when Bellocchi misses a jab and Tua pops him with a good counter jab. Nice stuff.

He showed some more of that in the second fight, but the story of the second fight is the wicked body attack Tua put on him. Man, I was cringing with every shot.

I was lucky enough to catch some of Tua's fight when he just becoming known, and right away I thought he could be a champion. Unfortunately, I think how easily most of his wins came wound up being the worst thing in the world for him... he became convinced he could knock anyone out with one punch and came too rely on it way too much, to the detriment of his other skills.

 

Good Point Marciano was great but he was too small when he gets in his crouch sanders is going to kill with him the left uppercut sanders is a powerful fast freak!

 

If cruiserweights knocked him down SSFONCS would kill him!

 

How would Tua do against Foreman,Tua has great chin and power and the young Tua had great stamina as well, I can't see even Foreman shaking off a Tua left hook like he did with Frazier.

 

Tua looks very Tyson-esque in that clip.

 

Shame Bruce Bellochi never got his hands on a title belt.