Joe Hipp

[ykdadamaja]

The fight between he and Tommy Morrison would make you turn anti-boxing. The beating BOTH men took, particularly Hipp, was something that you should retire off of.

Not for the weak at heart!

[Spicoli]

Hipp was all brass. He did well to max out his limitations and make the most of Espn to a few HBO features and vice versa. Unfortunatly his tissue and bone could not keep pace with his heart. Dude had respectable pop and uppercut to hurt all the key players he faced. He was swollen or nicked just about everytime out and successfully came back from a major knee surgery to rebuild for a trinket bid but was tailor made for a Seldon piston jab, even then he had Seldon doing 360's. He def got the most from what he had available.

[Violent Demise]

The fight between he and Tommy Morrison would make you turn anti-boxing. The beating BOTH men took, particularly Hipp, was something that you should retire off of.

Not for the weak at heart!

If I remember correctly Morrison suffered a broken jaw. While Hipp's cheekbone was shattered. It was brutal

Hipp was all brass. He did well to max out his limitations and make the most of Espn to a few HBO features and vice versa. Unfortunatly his tissue and bone could not keep pace with his heart. Dude had respectable pop and uppercut to hurt all the key players he faced. He was swollen or nicked just about everytime out and successfully came back from a major knee surgery to rebuild for a trinket bid but was tailor made for a Seldon piston jab, even then he had Seldon doing 360's. He def got the most from what he had available.

Seldon shredded his face with that jab. One thing Seldon could do was throw a good jab

[Hulk]

Did he and Jimmy Thunder ever fight?


Just checked Boxrec and no they didn't.


That's a shame.

[Dia bando]

Thanks for the information Chaps.

[bradlee180]

A main liability for Joe Hipp was that his eyes would swell shut.
You'd start to see the swelling right after rd one.

He was all Heart, he was tough.
When he fought, he gave 'er everything he had.

Hipp is part of the Blackfoot Confederacy.
Niitsitapi is their own word for themselves in their own language, some also say Siksika (Blackfoot.)
4 First Nations make up the Confederacy, they share a common language with dialect differences. Hipp's is Piikani Blackfoot in northern Montana. The other 3 are just over the border in southern Alberta, Canada.


Morrison fought about 5 rds with the broken jaw, Hipp with a broken cheekbone, Morrison broke his hands. That was a Damn good fight!

[bradlee180]

I just rewatched it, hadn't seen it in years. June 1992.

Y'know, I think ref vic drakulich should have let Joe continue.
He was knocked down in the 9th, he beat the count, but the ref waved off the fight with only 1 rd to go.
I think Hipp was winning the fight at that point, Morrison never had stamina past 4 rds (aside from the Foreman fight).
I think Morrison being a proven ticket seller and Hipp not being is why that fight was stopped a bit quick. I was a fan of Morrison, but the powers that be will always go with the attraction.


That fight was a good Heavyweight scrap, but it wasn't near as vicious as the bad injuries would lead you to believe. It really wasn't a couple of 1-dimensional bombers with no science. It was quite measured, not a frantic pace of desperate fighting. It was a good competitive Heavyweight scrap between a Top 10 Heavyweight in Morrison and a Top 15 Heavy in Hipp.

The announcers were pure $#!t though. alex wallau, dan dierdorf, couple of d!<k-heads...
Not once did those two rocket-scientists contemplate that Morrison may've injured a hand as to why he wasn't throwing the left hook that he was famous for....
It's why it's better to get Boxing people to call Boxing, not any sportscaster. Some of the times with sports stations, it was like he's our sports-guy, send him over to cover the fight. Dude may know football or baseball, but jack$#!t about Boxing. MMA had that Gus guy for a while, effin' idiot...

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[Beanflicker]

The fight between he and Tommy Morrison would make you turn anti-boxing. The beating BOTH men took, particularly Hipp, was something that you should retire off of.

Not for the weak at heart!

Nasty fight.

Hipp had huge balls.