Do you think Floyd could have beat Tommy Hearns at 147?

[boxinghead530]

Cant see floyd being agressive enough, wilfred benitez a master of defence couldnt beat hearns. Hearns had it all

You beat me to it. I was going to say the same thing about Hearns vs Benitez. Hearns is just too much man for Floyd. His heighth, length, shot gun jab and bazooka right hand to go along with his skills would IMO eventually wear Floyd down.

[Hands of Stone]

Yes,i think he could,He would takes Hearns right hand away and make him overwork himself..i think Mayweather is a nightmare for Hearns

Dumbest comment on the board I have read so far. You obviously don't know much about boxing beyond Floyd. You could make a case for maybe Floyd frustrating SRR to a decision, frustrating Duran to maybe the same thing but he has no chance in hell to beat the Hitman. Tommy is a huge welterweight, too much height, a very good boxer with a piston like jab and a huge right hand. If you think Miguel Cotto's jab was a problem for Floyd, you can double that problem with the Hitman's jab.

Floyd's most effective punch, the left hook would not be a factor as Tommy is too tall and fights tall too, his punches to the solar plexus will be tough with Tommy's jab and right hand being a constant threat. SRR, Hagler had success because they were willing to throw caution to the wind, eat some punches and pressure Tommy which ultimately wore him down. Floyd is not that type of fighter. So stylistically, the Hitman is just all wrong for Floyd.

[Derranged]

This has been done to death. Even Larry agrees that Hearns beats Floyd.

EDIT: At least I've seen post that in the past.

[Luilun]

This is one of my all time favorite mythical match ups. I am curious to see how some of the boxing heads think this match up would have played out.

No ! Mayweather would get knocked out Floyd would hide at 140 until Tommy moved up to 154

[SlySlickSmooth]

Hearns could beat him by just exchanging right hands. 2009- Floyd wouldn't have a chance at all.

[TheSwiftAsSa5in]

Pretty boy can and Money can't.

[Ahmed_Ismail]

Don't count Mayweather out, Benitez gave Hearns a lot of problems and he was also a defensive fighter but with less speed and worse defense than Mayweather, Mayweather's in and out speed and use of angles is something that would give a tall opponent like Hearns problems, u can't just outbox Floyd from a distance all night, can't think too much with him and Hearns didn't have the high punching output, swarming pressure style and stamina to keep the pressure on Mayweather. Would've been a great fight though.

[bluebeam]

I like hearns by decision

[Champ Is Here]

Floyd loses to Hearns

Beat everyone else though

[Merciless1]

Hearns wasn't one dimensional offensively.

I say that if Maidana and Mosely could touch Floyd, Hearns would have a pretty good shot of doing so as well.

And neither one could crack like Hearns.

Floyd is in trouble in this one. It's not a knock against him. The whole of the '47 division gets destroyed if you drop a Hearns in the division today.

I agree with everything in this post.