Tommy " the Duke" Morrison Vs Michael Moorer.

I'd go with Moorer's superior defense, straighter punches and smarter boxing to get the job done here.

Both had shaky chins so you just don't know. But Morrison got hit and hurt more easily, see Bentt, Mercer, Williams, Hipp, Rudduck, Purrity. He needed to go life and death with too many past it and lower tier fighters

 

I'd go with Morrison. He really was a ferocious heavyweight puncher and an excellent finisher.

Moorer's reputation was made at light heavyweight, where he knocked out everyone and was considered a killer.

At heavyweight, he didn't bring the same thunder.

After moving up, Moorer was a solid 30-4-1 with a respectable 20 knockouts ... but he really wasn't special.

Morrison by KO in a round or two.

 

Moorer's stellar victories as a heavyweight were against Frans Botha and Vasily Jirov, neither man possessing a punch of any consequence, and Michael struggled against them both...Tommy Morrison, on the other hand, was supremely dangerous proposition...a totally different animal, and even if Moorer had him down, and in trouble, Tommy was always dangerous and was capable of equalizing the affair as he did with Razor Rudduck...and I seriously doubt that you can compare Moorer's chin with the Razor's.

 

Moorer may or may not have been defensively superior to Morrison, but one thing was for sure, and that was that his ring IQ didn't equal Morrison's, as proven by his lazy, brainless stand against Foreman. I think MM forgot at times that he was fighting heavyweights, and not lightheavies, against whom he could get away with such slipshod, defensive laziness.

 

IMO Morrison had much superior fire power than Moorer and definetely the better chin, you usually had to beat him down pretty good while Moorer twice, once in his prime and once washed up was iced by pretty much one shot.

50/50 fight but I would put my money on Morrison, this would be no chess or boxing match , this would be a brawl and I favor Morrison.

 

Not really, Moorer was stupidly sloppy once against Foreman, Morrison got sloppy in nearly every fight, he got taken out by Mercer and Bentt after all but was knocked down and hurt many other times by countless others.

Moorer was sloppy much less than Morrison overall if we're looking at the risks each fighter took

 

Nice post, the thing is Morrison loved to fight, and had a kill or be killed mentality, Moorer didn't have that, in fact he actually looked bored in the ring sometimes, and just didn't give a damn..

Morrison had that fire n his gut, Moorer lacked, that's why Atlas was always screaming in his face to be more productive..

 

No ****ing way. he was trounced by a very mediocre Bentt, went life and death with Joe Hipp and extremely shopworn versions of Williams and Ruddock.

He was a ponderous, huffing and puffing, unimaginative b-rater.... an exciting, fun to watch B rater with a lot of heart, too.

Today he would be a chinless Chris Areola with a pretty left hook.

 

That was not an early stoppage, I'm sorry but when a guy has his opposition on the ropes beating the **** outta him, you HAVE TO FIGHT BACK. or you are just waiting for the ref to stop the fight..

Besides Razor didn't argue or protest at all, neither did his corner or management, they probably just wanted to get paid and get outta dodge..

 

LOL, we all know you can't win a fight running, Morrison put on a boxing exhibition that night that would have made Floyd Mayweather proud..

And when George managed to land a hard shot, Morrison kept coming, and didn't decide to take a nap in the middle of the ring like Moorer did..

What made the win even more impressive was that Morrison outboxed a much more experienced man who was a lot bigger than Himself, Morrison looked significantly smaller than Big George..

 

Lets get real.

Anyone completely writing Morrison off, like Seamus is evidently doing, is an idiot. I'm not a fan of Morrison really, contrary to one might think of my nickname.

Morrison could end anyone with a single left hook and he also had 1 shot power in his right too. He could put punches together, had impressive speed, explosiveness and a pretty good offensive ar$enal.

For someone that "wasn't that good", he racked up a lot of decent wins and was beating the sh!t out of Mercer before he ran out of gas and Mercer started to connect. His wins over Rudduck, Foreman, and Williams prove he was definitely a capable fighter. Moorer by comparison got KO'd by Foreman.

Moorer also was a sharp shooter with decent accuracy and power. Both Morrison and Moorer had vulnerable chins to say the least and weren't the most adept defensively so this fight could go either way.

Morrison could easily overpower Moorer early and stop him with power shots. That's not out of the question at all given Moorer's losses to Tua, Foreman, Holyfield, and his struggle with Cooper. The guy could be caught and hurt.. Or Morrison could run out of gas, get careless, and get caught by Moorer's straight left & right hook. Either scenario is possible.

 

LOL at comparing Morrison to Arreola! did Arreola ever beat anyone close to Foreman or Rudduck?

 

Moorer was down and out as many times as Morrison was in far fewer heavyweight fights.

 

Your post name ensures impartiality.

Who exactly worth a **** did Morrison end with a single powershot?

 

Go back and look at the Morrison-Foreman affair. It's debatable if Morrison deserved the win. And I could name 1000 track stars who could run better than Morrison did.