Tommy Hearns was sadly underrated...

[StarshipTrooper]

Like 2 months ago

I used to crack up everytime you'd post... reppin Roy and you never knew it.

Oh I saw it almost immediately.....I just always figured it was a sizing issue. It never occurred to me that you had doctored it :hahahaha9:

Poet

[THE REED]

haha!

[elfag]

Hes one of my favorite fighters. Hes generally rated pretty highly though overall. Some aspects of him get underrated. His chin issues get exaggerated I think when people comparing him head to head against other guys as if he will always be stopped when thats no guarantee.

Also have heard some strange comments now and then but from obvious noobs who never watched him fight. Things like him being slow, which is ridiculous as he was very fast and people under stating his boxing and jab.

[Mintcar923]

Hes one of my favorite fighters. Hes generally rated pretty highly though overall. Some aspects of him get underrated. His chin issues get exaggerated I think when people comparing him head to head against other guys as if he will always be stopped when thats no guarantee.

Also have heard some strange comments now and then but from obvious noobs who never watched him fight. Things like him being slow, which is ridiculous as he was very fast and people under stating his boxing and jab.

I suppose some may under-rate him a bit. But I'd say the real boxing purists respect him to the fullest degree. At the very least he deserves to be up there with the very best of his era and I'd have to say of all time. If you look at the majority of his fights and especially with the other great fighters he had fought his performances were extremely impressive.

Even if you look at his most famous loss which was the one with Hagler, he was immensely dynamic. You all saw the bout with Duran in which he had destroyed him in two rounds. And while that may not be the best version of Duran we had ever seen he was victorious in a big way. A lot of experts do believe he had avenged the 1st loss to Leonard by gaining the upper hand in the rematch. Although, it was scored a draw almost nobody believes it was! I'd have to say as far as Iran Barkely is concerned he just had Tommy's number. But, if you think about it there almost always is a fighter in every ATG's career that for some reason has their number. And, they don't necessarily have to be a boxing great per se.

Sorry guys, I don't see a very weak chin on Tommy. Anyone can KO anyone if they get hit the right way. Tommy's magnificent heart more than makes up to his slightly flawed chin.