Tommy Morrison

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What are/were your thoughts on him? pretty short career but he was mildly sucesful.Is known for being on one of the worst ends of a KO in the history of boxing too.

[joeytrimble]

What are/were your thoughts on him? pretty short career but he was mildly sucesful.Is known for being on one of the worst ends of a KO in the history of boxing too.

great left hook ... great heart ...huge party animal ...decent wins

top 100 all time heavyweight but thats about it for me..

[BuddyChacon]

Morrison also had a great ability to throw combinations and had great hand speed. He was a big time underacheiver in my opinion. He had alot of tools but never trained like he should have and had stamina problems because of it. In the Mercer fight he threw some of the best combinations I have seen from a heavyweight but just ran out of gas and was pummeled.

[ZOSOOSOZ]

great left hook ...

Morrison/Ruddock: one of the greatest left hooks of all time...

[SnoopySmurf]

Mercer got lucky. He had just beaten Fabrice Tiozzi (I think) and Mercer was getting his ass handed to him as well until he threw an uppercut that barely touched Fabrice's face. But it did push his nose cartilage out of his nose. End of fight.

Morrison was a juicer too.

[BuddyChacon]

Mercer got lucky. He had just beaten Fabrice Tiozzi (I think) and Mercer was getting his ass handed to him as well until he threw an uppercut that barely touched Fabrice's face. But it did push his nose cartilage out of his nose. End of fight.

Morrison was a juicer too.

It was Francesco Damiani that was beating Mercer till he threw that uppercut. Morrison was a big time admitted Steroid user.

[K-DOGG]

What are/were your thoughts on him? pretty short career but he was mildly sucesful.Is known for being on one of the worst ends of a KO in the history of boxing too.

I think he had the talent to go all the way; but had a serious psychological flaw...confidence, which very well might have been put there by his crushing loss to Mercer. If you'll remember, that was the only true knock-out of his career, the rest were TKO's.....that means his chin, believe it or not, was average before Mercer. The Mercer fight gave him a psychological flaw, it shattered or at least dented his confidence. Part of being able to take a punch is belief......if you don't believe the other guy can hurt you, or more specifically, if YOU BELIEVE THE OTHER GUY CAN'T hurt you.....most of the time he can't, unless he hits you with something superb.

The Mercer fight instilled self-doubt, which reared it's ugly head every time Tommy got tagged from that fight on. It's nothing to be ashamed of....very few fighters ever fully recover from that kind of loss and Tommy was no different.

Other than the psychological flaw of self-doubt following the Mercer loss, Tommy's other big problem was lack of versatility. While it is true he was able to out-box old, slow, George Foreman by using a tried and true method....hit and run, he was essentialy a one-dimensional fighter with no plan B.

History-wise, I'll say he was a good contender along the same lines as an Earnie Shavers or a Mac Foster or a Bob Satterfield.

[joeytrimble]

I think he had the talent to go all the way; but had a serious psychological flaw...confidence, which very well might have been put there by his crushing loss to Mercer. If you'll remember, that was the only true knock-out of his career, the rest were TKO's.....that means his chin, believe it or not, was average before Mercer. The Mercer fight gave him a psychological flaw, it shattered or at least dented his confidence. Part of being able to take a punch is belief......if you don't believe the other guy can hurt you, or more specifically, if YOU BELIEVE THE OTHER GUY CAN'T hurt you.....most of the time he can't, unless he hits you with something superb.

The Mercer fight instilled self-doubt, which reared it's ugly head every time Tommy got tagged from that fight on. It's nothing to be ashamed of....very few fighters ever fully recover from that kind of loss and Tommy was no different.

Other than the psychological flaw of self-doubt following the Mercer loss, Tommy's other big problem was lack of versatility. While it is true he was able to out-box old, slow, George Foreman by using a tried and true method....hit and run, he was essentialy a one-dimensional fighter with no plan B.

History-wise, I'll say he was a good contender along the same lines as an Earnie Shavers or a Mac Foster or a Bob Satterfield.

i never looked at it that way but your absaultly right man