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Floyd Mayweather, JR – Tommy Hearns at 147 LBS: The Winner Is…

Who do you think wins at 147 between Floyd Mayweather, JR. & Tommy Hearns?

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Floyd MBy Tim Taylor

Here you have it folks…. Thomas Hearns in his day a terror in the ring with his power and may I add boxing ability. This is a man who all but beat Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight on September 16, 1981, with boxing, not punching and then finally got caught by Sugar Ray’s persistent hammering away at his defense and got dropped. “The Hitman” who dropped Roberto Duran on June 15,1984, like a cement slab when they fought. Then faced and tried to take Marvin Hagler’s head off in “The War,” on April 15, 1985, with some of the heaviest and most ill willed punches thrown in three rounds that boxing fans have ever seen.

How would this legend stack up against the shorter more cunning Floyd Mayweather, JR. at 147lbs? Hearns would set the pace early on because that was always Hearns’ style and not a reactionary fighter. Mayweather, JR. would roll with the power shots and the boxing version of Tommy would come at him while parrying most shots and getting hit with a few. Floyd would land mostly counter punch combinations in reply to Tommy’s attacking with enough sting on them to have Hearns re-think his approach.

Hearns would finally start to wither in the middle rounds as Mayweather, JR. absorbed his energy and starts to go on the offensive with uppercuts that Hearns often use to get caught with and a Thbarrage of body shots that make Hearns double over as he protects his thin and lanky mid-section from further pain. The end would come in “Round 8”as Hearns is once again caught on the ropes, battered and bruised and not able to land with his wild countering bolo punches and haymakers thrown out of desperation. He sways against the ropes like a willow tree with his arms almost seemingly touching the floor as Mayweather pummels him with shots until the referee steps in and mercifully stops the contest. Hearns lasted 8 grueling rounds with the first part being dictated by his aggression, but with Mayweather, JR. finally pouncing on him like a predator in the moment of a kill and finishing him off in a hail of shots to his head.

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