Tommy Morrison - Herbie Hide

I think Herbie would have been knocked out early as bad as a want him to win... Morrison's left hook if it connected in the first 4 rounds messes him up.... if Herbie avoids the early attack he knocks out Tommy...Tommy had a decent speed in the early rounds

 

Arum cancelled the card at the last second. The irony was it would have been one of his deepest cards in awhile.

The fight boils down to which of the 2 could pull off being a road warrior. Morrison never wore those shoes & Herbie fell apart against Bowe. Not exactly a lot of depth going into the lions den.

My guess is Morrison is not handling China well and is not training for the fight the way he should. He'd be doing everything except training.

 

both could be KO'd but Morrison had the better resume, not a fight to bet on IMO

 

If memory serves, wasn't Bruno--Mercer on that card? And some other interesting ones. But Bob said he was losing money so he cancelled it a few days before the bouts.

 

Yes I remember this back in the 90s ,Big Frank was due to meet Mercer .If the two fight s had taken place my prediction s would have being ..
Hide ko Morrison and fast. Herbie would have launched out fast at Tommy ,hurting him straight off .Morrison doesn't recover in the minutes rest and is stopped in round 2.
Bruno meanwhile would involved in a bitterly hard fought 10 rounder. In charge for the first half ,pumping out his jab in to Rays head and looking good .But as the fight goes in to the second half ,Mercer begin s to cut through to a slowing Bruno. By the 10 th and last ,Frank is arm tired and Mercer begins to pummel him along the ropes. But Bruno survive s to get a tight unanimous win .

 

This would be a bit of a fifty fifty I believe. Morrison had the far greater ring craft, and should be favoured to win, but Hide was just so wild and dangerous that I can see him catching Morrison with something big and stopping him early.

 

Hide by stoppage, even bowe stated a few years ago that the person who hit him the hardest was Herbie hide, I think he out foxes him for a few rounds then catches him clean and with his speed finishes him like mercer did.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Noon_in_Hong_Kong

Of the four main fights scheduled, only Ruelas-Schwer actually ended up happening.

The two heavyweight fights were interesting fights and potentially defining ones for the second tier of 90s heavyweights. If for example Mercer had done a Bonecrusher on Bruno, Bruno-McCall doesn’t happen and therefore Bruno-Tyson II doesn’t either. Do we get McCall-Tyson instead, or even Mercer-Tyson? Does Lewis get a rematch with McCall earlier?

Likewise, Hide-Morrison could have shook things up. Does Morrison-Bowe happen for the WBO belt, or if Hide wins does he have more leverage in the division and take a different route other than Bowe?


Re Hide-Morrison, you obviously can’t bet on this one, as either could get clipped at any time. The form book obviously favoured Hide, who had dominated Bentt who had stopped Morrison inside a round. Hide’s speed would cause Morrison problems, and Morrison wasn’t as physically as imposing as Bowe or Klitschko.

For me though, I can see Morrison getting dropped by Hide and coming back into it. I can’t see the same the other way round. If Morrison lands his left-hook on Hide, he probably decapitates him, and I think the odds are that happens at some point.

 

I think Hide-Morrison is a coin flip. At the time it was being proposed, I would have bet on Hide to KO Morrison. But, it would depend on the confidence level of both men going in. The Bowe fight took a LOT out of Hide. (psychologically, as much as anything.)

Remembering (and rewatching) some of Hide's fights, I can't believe nobody has compared him to Deontay Wilder. The two have similar builds, deceptively good power, and plowed through mostly nondescript opposition in knockout fashion. Wilder is slightly taller, but, Hide seems a little faster, and certainly Hide has the better fundamentals of both hand and foot. Only difference is, Hide at least eventually challenged the best (and lost). Wilder has yet to face anyone who came into the ring looking like championship material. (And that definitely includes the pudgy, slow version of Ortiz that fought Deontay).

 

That's a good comparison. Herbie steamrolled a couple of C or B grade guys & sure looked good beating Bentt. Lots of folks were going w/ Bentt in that one and Hide turned it into a mismatch.

But Herbie still held those hands low. Lower than Ali even. He held that chin straight up in the air. But he could punch with both hands and had a lot of snap on those punches. I still recall the pre-fight thing w/ Danny Williams prior to the Klitschko fight & his other antics prior to that bout.

 

Ridiculous argument

 

Morrison by ko.was simply better and did hit harder

 

Stupid statement