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Quote Originally Posted by rjj tszyu View Post
I've been thinking about how much people on here talk about Tommy Hearns' "Glass Jaw", but was it really so bad? I mean at the end of the day he was a Welterweight that moved up through the weights and was KO'd in thehigher weights a couple of times fair enough but only the great Ray leonard KO'd him at Welter and that was after 14 gruelling rounds in a fight he would have won in this day and age.

Then he moved upto Middleweight and another great KO'd him in Hagler but how many hard shots were thrown and landed in them 3 rounds? It must be a record for a world title fight!

Finally Barkley sparked him but he was past his best by then and Barkley on his day could do things like that unexpectedly. I'm not trying to say Hearns was Jake Lamotta but I do think that sometimes his chin is underrated especially when people just write him off having a chance in some of the made up "dream matches" people think of on here.
Umm yes and no his loss to Sugar Ray Leonard was stamina issues, he took bombs off Marvin Hagler before getting stopped. And he was KO'ed by Iran Barkley who was a massive puncher.

But then theres other times like getting wobbled by Doug DeWitt more than once, who wasn't a big puncher or getting floored by James Kinchen, then having to hold on like an octupus to survive because he was so badly out of it.

And he was badly wobbled against Juan Domingo Roldan but he wasn't a bad puncher. Overall theres cases both ways he did take great shots from Sugar Ray Leonard, in both fights and he was stopped in the 1st fight because of stamina issues.

And he did take great shots from Marvin Hagler, and getting KO'ed by the hard hitting Iran Barkley, is nothing to be ashamed of. But as i said then theres the flip side of him being hurt and dropped by non punchers like i mentioned above.

But overall no i don't think he had a glass chin, Terry Norris is a definition of a glass chin. Even though he was a fantastic fighter.
Nice answer. I often wonder whether it was his stamina that used to let him down a lot rather than his chin!