Which Hearns ko win are you most impressed by: Duran or Cuevas

Cuevas was an iron chinned monster. Duran was finished.

 

KO said it best. "The violent reign of Pipino the terror...."

 

Both. He outpunched both, but neither one was a one punch knockout. He hit both of them clean over and over. Although Duran had more success hitting Hearns with a couple of body punches and 2 or 3 right hands. Cuevas didn't really land anything. Even on those two matches, had Cuevas or Duran landed it would have changed everything. Hearns was rumored to fight a rematch with Duran had he beaten Ray in 1989 and that would have been an interesting fight. I don't think it would have been a 2nd round knockout again. I think that would have gone 5 or 6 and Hearns would have won by TKO.

 

Next to Roberts"the the air turned red" about Willard-Dempsey, this is my fav line ever written in boxing writing history..

 

Good morning pea! 618 am & snowing here.

 

5:21 am here, and I don't know how the weather is yet. Dallas, Texas.

 

Duran. Just because of the sound of the right hand landing. That was a sound that normally comes from the movies, not a boxing ring.

 

The Duran KO was more spectacular to the boxing world, and unexpected ,but Duran was way past his best weight by then.

The KO over Pipino was a destruction over the terror of a weight class, and helped establish a new one.

 

Duran.

 

Yet Duran beat Iran Barkley five years later, shocking everyone.

Duran wasn't finished, he was overwhelmed by Hearns's tremendous physical advantages. As was Cuevas.

I would say both performances were equally impressive, as both Cuevas and Duran had shown tremendous chins up to their fights with Hearns. It was more a case of Hearns having tremendous punching power than a lack of chin of Cuevas and Duran.

 

Where do they rank among the best KO:s of all time? Must be way up there. Just blow guys like those out of the water...

 

Noone did that to Duran before or after that, so Duran.

Both scary KO's.

 

The key statement to show yr unending boxing ignorance "Duran was not finished". WOW! A beginnng boxing fan would think that. You kill me MarkSad. Yeah Duran was just starting out. Now send yr altereho Mark to agree.

 

Absolutely. Two of the greatest ko's ever even tho history is littered with them.