Tommy Hearns v Aaron Pryor -- 17 year old Hearns

**smashup** · 12-03-2006 08:49 PM

Enjoy this 3 round cracker
I did

[youtube=425,350]0BvlgGbrKzs&feature=RecentlyWatched&page=1&t=t&f=b[/youtube]

**smashup** · 12-03-2006 09:56 PM

Bump

X · 12-04-2006 02:38 PM

Good post Smash - amazing how much Hearns' style changed from the amateurs to the pros?

**smashup** · 12-05-2006 09:07 PM

And for a 17 year old he was gifted

**amat** · 12-05-2006 09:24 PM

Saw this a while back would have loved to see them in the pros. Shobox had Ronald Hearns fight Aaron Pryor's son a while back and I was hoping they would show that (I had heard about it before) but they didn't. Couple weeks later it popped up on the internet.

Wierd how Hearns had a very small number of KO's in his amatuer career then turned into a KO king in the pros.

X · 12-06-2006 06:18 PM

In the clip, despite being only a kid and therefore tiring early (a 17 year old v a 20 year old is a tough matchup), I did notice that in the second round, once Hearns stopped dancing and pushed Pryor back - it was only for about 15 seconds or so - he absolutely owned him.

Great matchup, but I think a prime Hearns would have stood his ground, speared Pryor on his long left and then smashed him with the right.

Mind you, I can also see why Pryor developed into a great fighter!