Would Tommy Morrison Have Being Too Much For M. Spinks?

Bring up the link and point it out. I don’t remember him doing anything

 

My view also JT. I like Morrison here. Though Spinks was a far better fighter overall than Morrison in
his dreams wished he could be . He was not the better Heavyweight. He caught a
break fighting Larry Holmes at the tail end of his career, Cooney while he was living
in the bottle and nose candy, and Tangstad who is just a trivia question in Spinks
career.
Morrison if he's aggressive but smart shouldn't have much of a problem catching
and stopping Spinks. Especially when considering Spinks lateral movement was
severely hampered at Heavyweight by his bad knee's .

 

You can watch the fight. Spinks was fighting aggro trying to get Tyson's respect.

 

thanks but I DID watch the fight. 33 years ago and a few times since. And I didn’t see anything but a very disinterested and intimidated ex-champion.

 

Morrison’s entire resume was built by catching guys on the tail ends of their careers.

 

Ok, they BOTH DID! Morrison though fought more at heavyweight than Spinks. I believe the natural heavyweight, who was very quick, and and aggressive with one of the better left hooks in heavyweight history would be all wrong for Spinks. Spinks knees were shot at heavyweight, Holmes and Cooney didn't come out aggressive. ( A hugh mistake for both men, Holmes age, and Cooney’s personal demons were the cause)
Morrison would come out blazing against Spinks, and engage him early. Spinks wouldn't be able to move laterally because of those bad knees. In my opinion its a short night for Morrison, he may not do a Tyson on Spinks, but it wouldn't surprise me if he did.
Spinks is very overrated at heavyweight, and conversely, Morrison like most white heavyweights get severely underrated if they didn't dominate.
I believe the Cooney Holmes fought ko's Spinks too. Spinks was not good at heavyweight. That simple.

 

If Morrison was as good as some of you guys think he was, he would have been considered a far more serious contender in his own day, and he would have made quick work of a washed-up Carl Williams for example. He had the style and strengths to obliterate a fighter like Williams in theory, the point is he just didn't have enough of those strengths, he didn't have the quality.

 

Carl Williams, almost shot to pieces, against "one of the better left hookers in history" ..... wouldn't last a round.
Morrison simply wasn't all that.

And we can go through his whole resume, there's nothing except the Foreman win to put him anywhere near being a serious contender, and Foreman's status as a genuine top ten contender in the 1990s is often shaky (and ultimately relies on the upset of Moorer for the title).

 

There's been some good back and forth hasn't there. I think the take home point for me is that this is a quite open fight and i wouldn't want to be overly confident of anything.

But we certainly lean the same way and you make great points mate.

 

Nope

 

Spinks is far more versatile, he can box, set guys up on the way in, fight on the inside, can close the distance.
Spinks would constantly set Morrison up, he’d constantly land his own left hook off the jab, he jabs, gets Morrison to bite, and starts feinting the jab and throwing the left hook as Morrison dips, then following up as Morrison exits.
He uses the first round to jab, feint and see how Morrison reacts then adjusts, starts reading him, timing Morrison’s head movement, beating him up on the outside with the jab, lead hooks and right hands, and timing him on the way in, during the long range-mid range transitions, and knocks him out by the 7th round.

 

I favor Spinks here just as much as I'd favor the Holmes of their rematch over Morrison.

 

I know this is an old thread but Morrison is getting vastly overrated in this thread he was floored twice by Purrity and would've lost had it been a 12 rounds because he was fading badly.

A considerably past it Carl Williams had Morrison on the floor 3 times.

Bentt finished him in 60 seconds.

Mercer almost decapitated him.

Morrison went life and death with Hipp.

Morrison's only relevant win against a fighter that was still relevant in the 90s was a 43 year old Foreman.

Ruddock had only fought twice in 3 years and was done as a world class contender at that point.

Thomas was 1-4 in his last 5 fights and completely shot and no longer world class.

Yes Spinks who was a bit past his prime lost early to Tyson who was at his absolute peak but would glass chin Morrison last longer than 1 or 2 rounds against a peak Tyson ? Absolutely not.

I think Spinks is a better fighter than Morrison and should be the favourite here.

 

Tommy comes out fast and does Mike in the first three rounds. Spinks is a much better boxer but at heavyweight, a fast, mobile powerful fighter like Morrison would have been his nemesis. Spinks physical frailties would mean he couldn't defend in a meaningful or mobile enough way. Tommy fought the first round the way he fought the last and I don't think Mike cam take that heat, styles making fights and all...

 

Spinks wins.