Is Kovalev This Generation's Thomas Hearns?

[Nay_Sayer]

Hearns lost to Iran Barkley... twice.

Barkley is better than anyone on Sergey the Klutcher Kovalev's resume not named Andre Ward..

[A.K]

Hearns was overrated af easy to hit and took multiple Ls

[Boks 123]

I like kovalev. I enjoy watching exciting fighters.

[HandsofIron]

Excellent post, man. You nailed it.

Thanks man. Had to re-watch SRL-Hearns again, that fight is sweet.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Hearns was probably the greatest boxer ever, he had everything apart from a granite chin.

Hagler finished him in 3 rounds. greatest boxer ever, yeah.

[Tony Trick-Pony]

Hearns was overrated af easy to hit and took multiple Ls

How many Ls did Sugar Ray Robinson have?

[#1Assassin]

I agree. I could only see the difference between Hearns and Kovalev is when Hearns sometimes telegraph his punches, especially his straight right hand where he will hold up his left hand on your face or shoulder while his right hand hold up at the rear. It does massive damage to the opponent, mostly knocking them out but it is easily avoidable.

are you kidding? thats one of the sweetest moves he had.

he used the left to block his opponents vision, slid over to his right side and threw the right hand down on his opponent off an angle from the blind side.

sometimes he would throw the right hand downstairs or bring the left back and whipp in a left hook right to the solar plexus instead, so it wasnt predictable.

once he did throw the right up top he would switch up the speed on it and catch the off guard. considering the way he would also double and triple his jab, throw hooks and uppercuts off it and set up and deliver his right hand in so many different ways.. the move you speak off was far harder to avoid than you think.

Their footwork, use of space and crushing right hands are very similar. I wouldn't be surprised of Sergey studied "The Hitman" quite a bit...

i think their footwork is very different. hearns often utilized a flat front foot that he would pivot heavily on, something i never seen kovalev do.

kovalev is very straight in and out in general while hearns used much more angles. even when they were on their toes and bouncing there was a very different rhytm and pattern to it. hearns had more of a sliding movement with more angles as mentioned but also some jerkiness to it.

kovalev is much more fundamental, but also basic in his movements imo.

in general i think their styles are quite different. then again i dont think theer has ever been or will ever be another tommy hearns, he was far too special a fighter.

[iamboxing]

Hagler finished him in 3 rounds. greatest boxer ever, yeah.

That's because he stood toe to toe with Hagler. Even SRL admitted Hagler kept calling him a ***** and kept inviting him in but he said uh uh...and fought smart. The way Hearns fought any fighter would have been on the canvas.

[#1Assassin]

Hagler finished him in 3 rounds. greatest boxer ever, yeah.

hearns outboxed SRL twice, duran, virgil hill and wilfred benitez.

he outboxed hill way over his best weight and past his best years while giving up the height advantage he was used to having. hill meanwhile was undefeated and in his prime.

he outboxed benitez with a badly broken hand, basically using just one hand all fight.

then add SRL TWICE and duran to that, not to mention the fact that hearns himself was never outboxed.

who has such an impressive history of outboxing some of the p4p best pure boxers in history?

he lost to hagler in a dog fight, he didnt box hagler. they both just stood there and let their biggest guns go, hagler was left standing in the end. says nothing of hearns' boxing ability except he chose not to use it, which proved to be a mistake.

[A.K]

How many Ls did Sugar Ray Robinson have?

He only had 1 threw 85 fights he stayed around cause he was broke