Don't see why it can't ... Mugabi's chin wasn't a liability until the dude was useless and weight drained ... he sponged an unholy torrent from Hagler before finally being stopped Mugabi definitely has a puncher's chance but I think Hearns can survive some hairy moments and either stop him a bit later in the fight or win a wide decision if Mugabi lasts
Mugabi ain't lasting long. There's just a HUGE difference between Hagler and Hearns in terms of power... as their respective fights against Duran and Roldan exhibited. Mugabi was too wide open and hittable to beat Tommy. At best, he hurts Hearns. But he still dies inside of 5.
The Duran fights prove just as much that Tommy was 6'2 and Marvin was 5'9... besides Hearns was at 154 against Duran where his punches still just killed guys ... at 160 he was still a great puncher but he usually had to work harder to get guys out I think Mugabi goes some rounds here... wouldn't surprise me for him to go 8 or 9
Hearns would have never been able to take Mugabi's shots for too long and the reverse is also true. Both men can BANG...and neither man had rock solid whiskers. Both men are also aggressive. 5 is the maximum this could go.
I really struggle to see any version of Mugabi go 8-9 with Hearns. I don't think he'd handle Tommy's power well at all, and once he gets hurt, I doubt he'd recover since he'd fight back instead of trying to run/hold.
Mugabi had a better chin than he's being given credit for here Hearns had more trouble hurting guys at 160 than is being reckoned with here I think it goes longer than 5
Nah, I think you're actually overrating his chin based solely on the Hagler fight. Roldan had a better chin than Mugabi, and we saw what Tommy did to him.
Roldan having a better chin is debatable; he also immediately threw caution to the wind and tried to steamroll Hearns, getting caught and picked apart in the process
Mugabi was KOd by Hagler after 10 rounds of nonstop abuse ... after that he suffered a freak eye injury in a fight he was winning and was "KOd" by Duane Thomas... then he retired, got really fat, came back a shell of himself, beat some total nobodies and won a paper title when his opponent broke his ankle early on... he then got fat again, fought several times at 168 while he was supposed to be a junior middleweight champion, starved himself to somehow make 154 again and was easily dispatched by Terry Norris... later McClellan turned the trick. In both of those of cases he was a completely useless fighter bearing little resemblance to what he had once been The guy that fought Hagler was a good and dangerous opponent ... the guy you're talking about wasn't the same athlete
It seems ludicrous that in spite of picking the same eventual outcome, I'm getting shit for seeing it go a few more rounds before that eventuality It's also ludicrous that Magus seems to have learned about Mugabi from Sly
