Nigel Benn vs Thomas Hearns at 160!

I was going to mention stamina as well, but being that I agree with the premise of it being doubtful that it lasts three rounds either way, I didn't figure it would be an issue in this fight.

hey now, you said you were only reconsidering it, not that you'd actually go there

 

1. True, it's likely an early ending fight, but if somehow no one is KOed in the early rounds, Hearns could win the fight with his boxing skills, but Benn didn't really have a plan B. I keep thinking back to Benn throwing a gazillion punches in the Watson fight and then running out of gas and getting decked by a jab. I do think Benn became a better fighter later in his career at 168.

2. I really wasn't referring to Sly there. I use that expression all the time in my non-message board life. Not every horse reference is about Sly. If the day comes where I decide to go there, there won't be a doubt. ::

 

Benn did indeed become a better fighter later in his career....broadwayjoe...but he didn't have the same explosive one punch power that he did at 160lbs.

Hearns..for all his boxing skills...had shown time and time again that he would brawl with a fighter who came at him...especially a shorter dangerous fighter.

As such...forget boxing...Benn will attack Hearns like a madman..for that is all Benn knew how to do in those days..and Hearns would respond in kind. Who's the better fighter almost wouldn't apply here....it would be who could survive that war.

Someone's going early and it could just as easily by Hearns IMO...

 

Precisely. Or perhaps we can just discount every single fight where someone ought to have been DQ-d in spite of what actually happened?

MTF :dunno:

 

For what it is worth, I wouldn't give Benn more than a puncher's chance here. As big a fan of him that I am, I couldn't seriously favour him here, even given Duran's relative decline in abilities at this higher weight. Benn proved pretty damn effective at KO-ing rubbish, but when faced with overall better fighters (Eubank, Watson) he struggled badly at 160.

IMHO Duran wins eight times out of ten, all of which inside a few rounds.

MTF

 

How is the view from that high horse?

MTF

 

Duran? :scratcher:

 

You say Leonard (in another thread) but meant Duran.

He says Duran but meant Hearns.

I guess we need to start a new MM to find a way to accidentally work in Hagler.

 

benn gets shuler'd

 

I may have been somewhat intoxicated earlier today...

MTF :Chainsaw: