Tommy Hearns vs Bernard Hopkins at 160. Who takes it?

HolyCityBully · Dec 18, 2007

Hops takes it.

rodney · Dec 18, 2007

Tommy Hearns wins in 3.
Too much fire power for Hopkins.

thesandman · Dec 18, 2007

I just want to know how people are picking Hopkins to KO Hearns quicker then he KOd Trinidad, in what is recognised as one of Hops best fights.

Has does everything better than Trinidad at middle IMO. Better boxer, better puncher, taller, bigger reach, stronger and hit harder. Chin probably the same, at worst.

Harder to hit, his chin at middleweight being "absolute glass" is a ludicrous statement for anyone to make.

It certainly wasn't the best I've ever seen(!!), but glass it wasn't.

Hearns could just turn this into a boxing match, not a fight, like he did to beat Virgil Hill when past his best.

here's a quote from the same time.

(from an NY Times website)

On the morning after the fight, Hill's trainer, Freddie Roach, said he had urged Hill to push the pace against Hearns, hoping to demobilize the challenger's legs in the process. But it was Hearns who controlled the flow of the action.

"The game plan was to take away his left hand," Hearns said at a news conference today. "To be quicker. To use our counter-punching. I worked on that and tried to dominate so that he couldn't use his left hook."

Credit Alex Sherer, Hearns's new trainer, with the input that shaped the plan.

"Virgil Hill is a great counter-puncher," Sherer said. "I told Thomas, 'When Virgil counters, you have to counter his counters.' Great boxers don't like to be boxed. Thomas boxed."

Indeed, the bombs-away approach associated with Hearns was conspicuously absent at the start. Hearns was cautious in the early rounds. The powerful right hand that has chilled so many opponents was held in check. Jab and left hook, jab and left hook were the punches that Hearns used to probe the fundamentally sound defenses of Hill.
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No reason that wouldn't work against Hopkins. And that right hand is always there just in case....

55/45 in Hearns favour IMO. (but then he's one of my favourites, so I'm hopelessy biased.....)

RAMPAGE0017 · Dec 18, 2007

mike101 said:

Hopkins takes Hearns out. Hearns is a very good boxer but he has an absolute glass chin.
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Glass is pushing it severely.

mike101 said:

Hopkins being a smart, very smart boxer takes his time and waits for Hearns to let down on his defenses and nails him flush on the chin and Hearns is history. Haggler showed the world than when pressed hard enough you can penatrate Hearns defenses and attack his weak spot, his chin. A Haggler vs Hopkins fight would be a better fight. Haggler would press Hopkins and give him the very best test of his entrie career. Hopkins longivity in the ring is something you don't see often, Hearns still fights today but in almost absolute obscurity.
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This isn't Julian Jackson we're talking about here, it's Hopkins, if he's going to stop Hearns it's going to be from accumalation. Hopkins has a very good chin ( although his defense won't allow it to be tested that often ), but I think Hearns had P4P strength. He's stopped some iron chinned fighters in his time, one of which includes Duran whom Hagler wasn't even able to stop.

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