Originally posted by New England
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I take it you haven’t seen the Moorer vs Cooper fight if you think just ‘flailing away’ (lol) wouldn’t have any success. Cooper attacked Moorer about as crudely as you can and had him all over the place. You massively overrate Moorers defence and his movement as a HW. Just watch his fights. He was easy to draw into a brawl and was not particularly difficult to find once you got him there. Sure he was skilled offensively, but defensively he was seriously lacking, coupled with a below average chin? Oh boy.
Where in the hell has this overrating of Moorer come from? The guy was good but his only true claim to fame is beating a clearly, famously, poor version of Holyfield, and outboxing a 197 year old George Foreman before getting KTFO.
Btw, even modern punchers gloves have a duck load of padding around the fist which helps defensively compared to old days. I wasn’t talking about how hard they hit, I was talking about his ability to defend himself using his preferred high guard and old 1930s gloves.
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