Thread: Could ANY other welter/middle/LH have taken Hearns' shots in round 1 that hagler did

Just watching the fabulous 4 and hearns v hagler and looking at the shots both on the replays and generally could anyone else exept hagler have come out cold in round 1 and taken those shots? Im not saying no but just wondering who!?!? We have some great chins but I cant think off the top of my head of any who could have survived that - e.g look at Duran and what happened lol

Originally Posted by oakleyno1

Just watching the fabulous 4 and hearns v hagler and looking at the shots both on the replays and generally could anyone else exept hagler have come out cold in round 1 and taken those shots? Im not saying no but just wondering who!?!? We have some great chins but I cant think off the top of my head of any who could have survived that - e.g look at Duran and what happened lol

Floyd PacMan would be on there back's looking at the star's, both KO no problem at all
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Originally Posted by brocktonblockbust

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Yes he did beat Tommy in the am's.

Sugar Ray would have walked through the Hit Man

That is Sugar ray Robinson by the way .

Carlos Monzon
Aaron Pryor
Bennie Briscoe
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
Archie Moore
Sugar Ray Robinson
Chris Eubank
Mike McCallum
Antonio Margarito
Dick Tiger
Jake LaMotta
Charley Burley
Ezzard Charles
James Toney
Beranrd Hopkins
Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Hagler was a tough nut, he was hurt alright. He was cut too, that cut was serious and if he didn't knock Tommy out in the 3rd it is unlikely Hagler could've continued beyond rounds 4 and 5? It wouldn't have been Hagler's choice, but the cut would've seen a stoppage.
As it happened he took all of Tommy Hearns best shots and survived, he then stepped on the gas after being cut and finished the job. Hagler had a granite like chin and i think Tommy Hearns was genuinely shocked Hagler didn't go down after landing so many big shots. If anything it appeared to have galvanised Hagler and he was relentless for the next two rounds. Would loved to have seen a rematch, but c'est la vie.
As for any others, Monzon would've taken all Hearns shots and probably KO'd him the same way Hagler did.

Aaron Pryor would have gotten hammered by Hearns in the pros.

Margarito would have been massacred by The Hitman.

The others I could see doing ok...LaMatta maybe?

Originally Posted by ICB

Carlos Monzon
Aaron Pryor
Bennie Briscoe
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
Archie Moore
Sugar Ray Robinson
Chris Eubank
Mike McCallum
Antonio Margarito
Dick Tiger
Jake LaMotta
Charley Burley
Ezzard Charles
James Toney
Beranrd Hopkins
Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Great list.
Can add Kid Gavilan, Ezzard Charles, Nigel Benn and Oscar de la Hoya to the list.
Not many WW but more MW and LHW would just because of their size and weight.

I don't think Light Heavyweights should really come into play here, seeing as this was a middleweight fight.

LaMotta would've taken it.
Robinson, too.

I'm not sure about anybody else. Pryor probably had a pretty decent chance of staying in there.

I don't really think Hagler was hurt, either. The guy's dome was hard like a football helmet. He had a fantastic chin. If he was hurt, he recovered fantastically.

If Arguello could hurt Pryor then a professional "All growed up" Tommy Hearns would have stopped him.

Maybe De la Hoya or Mosely could have taken that power for a bit, but I am thinking that even those guys (who had really solid chins) would wither under those shots

Originally Posted by El Kabong

If Arguello could hurt Pryor then a professional "All growed up" Tommy Hearns would have stopped him.

Maybe De la Hoya or Mosely could have taken that power for a bit, but I am thinking that even those guys (who had really solid chins) would wither under those shots

Arguello was a powerful hitter. I wouldn't put that to Pryor's discredit quite too much.

Interesting enough that you referred to a professional Hearns as "all growed up." Jogged my memory I bit. Hearns barely got any knockouts as an Amatuer. He used his boxing skills to beat everybody in the beginning. He didn't develop his punch until he got into the professional game.

Hearns was certainly fantastic. If the guy had an iron chin, he'd have been unstoppable. Imagine how much of a monster he would have been with an iron chin and excellent skills on the inside.

My imagination is running away from me. I apologize.

I think if Hearns could KO Duran he could KO anyone, especially at the lower weights the only people I could think that could have survived would be at middleweight Ray Robinson and Eubanks.

Originally Posted by Manos de Piedra

Originally Posted by ICB

Carlos Monzon
Aaron Pryor
Bennie Briscoe
Matthew Saad Muhammad
Eddie Mustafa Muhammad
Archie Moore
Sugar Ray Robinson
Chris Eubank
Mike McCallum
Antonio Margarito
Dick Tiger
Jake LaMotta
Charley Burley
Ezzard Charles
James Toney
Beranrd Hopkins
Dwight Muhammad Qawi

Great list.
Can add Kid Gavilan, Ezzard Charles, Nigel Benn and Oscar de la Hoya to the list.
Not many WW but more MW and LHW would just because of their size and weight.

Nigel Benn would have been knocked down. But look out once he got back up