Could Any Great Welter Of The Last Decade Beat Tommy Hearns?

[welcometosaigon]

Mayweather might be able to outbox Hearns, but Hearns' jab would be Floyds nightmare. Hearns right hand would put Pac in a very tough position. On his best night, and in his best shape, DLH might be able to get at Hearns, but Hearns could just box DLH ears off if he wanted to, same goes for Tito. Hearns could bomb Forrest out of a fight like Mayorga did.

And those were the best choices, people don't give Hearns credit, simply because he lost to some of the greatest fighters of all time, but he beat some too and they all worked hard for it.

I completely agree. And we all know he beat Leonard one time.

[Tiozzo]

Nobody can outbox Hearns.

Not even Ray Leonard, who waited and waited to land big punches to stop Hearns after he hurt him mid-way through the fight and that Hearns started backing up.

LOL at people saying Hearns could be outboxed by the likes of Mosley who has no jab or Mayweather who is a smallish Welter.

[New England]

honestly i wouldnt favor any of them against him.
plenty of folk consider a young, prime hearns the most talented WW to ever lace them up

he looked like a man built in a lab in his prime
he was gangly yet freakishly muscular where a boxer needed muscles
he was well over six feet tall
and had a true heavyweight reach



oscar had a truely granite chin and a great punch, two of the things you'd need to survive against hearns (in order)

i'd perhaps give him the best chance to stop tommy in a corner (who has an underrated chin in my estimation anyway)


but i'd still pick tommy to beat him easily

[cklmaced]

Hearns wouldn't beat Mayweather easily that is ****** when has Floyd ever looked like losing a fight or even being in dangered of being KO. The fact is they are both extremly good fighters so saying one would easily beat the other is plain ******.

[Jim Jeffries]

I completely agree. And we all know he beat Leonard one time.

And would've beaten him the first time had it been a 12 rounder.

[AllEyesOpen]

Hearns wouldn't beat Mayweather easily that is ****** when has Floyd ever looked like losing a fight or even being in dangered of being KO. The fact is they are both extremly good fighters so saying one would easily beat the other is plain ******.

I wouldn't say Hearns would beat Mayweather easily, but Hearns had the best jab Mayweather has ever been up against. If DLH was successful with it for about 1 round, then Hearns would give Mayweather a lot of problems. & that's coming from a huge Mayweather fan.

[RubenSonny]

And would've beaten him the first time had it been a 12 rounder.

It would've been a different fight if it was a 12 rounder you can't just cut off a 15 rounder at 12 rounds and equate that to a Hearns victory at 12 rounds.

[Chopper417]

God Tommy Hearns was such a damn freak. There will NEVER be another WW like that..how the hell did that guy ever make 147 haha. The thing that people aren't taking into consideration here is that the only guys on this list that started their careers at WW were Forrest, Tito, and Mayorga, everyone else started at lower weight classes.. Tommy started his career at WW and was just a monster physically. I don't think people appreciate how big of a physical freak Hearns was. I have a framed pic in my bedroom of Hearns and Hagler standing next to each other before their fight, and Hearns absolutely dwarfs Hagler (although that was at middle weight).

Pac-would get decapitated, literally no chance in that fight.

Cotto-decapitated

Mayorga-decapitated

Margs- complete joke, this guy was never an elite fighter and we all know he cheated for the biggest win of his career, Tommy destroys Margs

Tito-Would probably get KO'd, but the left hook would b a major threat to Hearns, that would be one hell of an entertaining fight though

Oscar-I think prime Oscar does ok in this fight, I think he makes it all 12 rounds and loses a pretty wide decision, punchers chance though

Mosley-Prime Mosley I think goes the distance as well, the man really does have a granite chin, literally 0% chance of winning a decision though, punchers chance

Mayweather-loses a unanimous decision 8/10 times, get's KO'd once, and wins a split decision once. Hearns jab would give Mayweather fits, but Floyd's defense would frustrate Tommy at times.

Forrest-I mean he's basically a poor man's version of Hearns, very similar physically except Tommy does EVERYTHING better, they r both fairly chinny at WW though, Hearns via mid/late round stoppage

[Chopper417]

oops forget P-will who started his career at WW as well. He probably gets KO'd but on his best night could probably make it out alive, with a UD loss.

[The_Demon]

Hearns wouldn't beat Mayweather easily that is ****** when has Floyd ever looked like losing a fight or even being in dangered of being KO. The fact is they are both extremly good fighters so saying one would easily beat the other is plain ******.

Hearns would beat Mayweather easily,its not plain ****** if you have seen them both fight at welterweight,it really doesnt matter that floyd has never looked like losing a fight,that means nothing in this fantasy match-up,hearns beats him ten times outta ten