Will Michael Moorer and Chris Byrd make the Hall of Fame?

The answer might be:

Yes, undeservedly.

And:

No, undeservedly.

 

Both have better skills than many HOFers.

But.

Byrd lacked size, strength and punching power

Moorer lacked chin and was often lazy.

That's why they both were very good, but not great.

I'd like to see them both at HOF a bit later

 

I like both for the Hall.

Man, Moorer would frustrate me because sometimes he was so lackadaisical.

I really admired Byrd's ability to have some level of Heavyweight success, since he was basically a Lt. Heavyweight with some extra weight put on to make big $.

 

You rate Byrd over Moorer? :think

 

Who would win head to head? I'd take Moorer.

Can't see either of the them in the Hall, in my opinion.

 

I think Moorer being inducted isn't too far fetched. He was a two divisional champion after all and even a two time heavyweight champion at that.. he defeated a myriad of good fighters including holyfield ( though in poor form ), Bert cooper, alex stewart, Frans Botha, Axel Schultz, Leslie Stewart and retired with a respectable record with only defeats to quality men.. Certainly worse fighters have gotten into the HOF.. As for Byrd I'm not so sure. While neither man beat a truly good version of Evander, the one who Byrd fought was beyond past it. And some of Chris's best decision wins were close and controversial... Even the Vitali win was tainted in its own way..

 

Moorer for sure

 

Maybe, and it it happens I hope a lot of time passes.

 

No. Neither will.

 

The WBO Light Heavyweight title wasn't as impressive as it sounds today.

The WBO had just been created. They wanted to name some champions. I don't know if Emanuel Steward called the WBO or the WBO called him, but a bunch of Kronk fighters fought for and were the first WBO champs.

Kenny Mitchell, who fought the first WBO super bantamweight title, was trained by Benjamin Getty, who was a trainer at Kronk.

Gaby Canizales was the second WBO Bantamweight champion (apparently, Kronk didn't have a bantamweight to fight for the inaugural belt), and he was trained by Steward and fought out of Kronk at the time.

John David Jackson, who was fighting for Kronk, won the first WBO junior middleweight title over the shot Lupe Aquino. He'd done absolutely nothing to qualify for a title shot.

Tommy Hearns, of course, won the first WBO super middleweight title over James Kinchen.

Nobody ... including people in Detroit ... knew who Michael Moorer was. But Moorer fought for and won the first WBO light heavyweight title against Ramzi Hassan, who had been shut out by Virgil Hill previously. And when Moorer vacated, another Kronk guy nobody had heard of, Leeonzer Barber, was immediately given a shot at the vacant belt and won it.

And when Moorer moved up to heavyweight, he was immediately named the WBO number-one heavyweight contender. And that was back when Tyson, Bowe, Lewis, Ruddock, Morrison, Foreman, etc. were all contenders with no belts.

So there was some odd stuff going on there. Just about every name at Kronk at the time was either the first WBO champ in their division or the second.

And when Steward seemed to be done with the WBO, then most of the WBO champs were Frank ****** fighters out of England. And after that it seemed most of the WBO champs were Universum fighters boxing out of Germany. A Denmark promoter slipped in there, too, and all his fighters became WBO champs. That's one reason why the WBO took a while to gain some credibility.

Moorer never fought any of the top light heavyweights while he was there.

 

Moorer deserves it...just.

Byrd, hell no.

 

I think Moorer's participation in a notably stronger and more popular era may win him some points.