lol julian jackson!Broncano wrote:That's another interesting matchup but I was thinking about the other Hawk, the one fron The Virgin Islands...
Well thats a dream matchup I never thought of, and one which just goes to show the depth of fighters of high quality boxing had in the 147-160lbs class around 1988-1991!
I picked up an old boxing illustrated of jan 1990 and i counted 23 strong candidates for inclusion in a top ten pound for pound category at that time.
Very hard to predict this fight. As in theory Starling had never been kayoed (legally) in his life and jackson had the power to end any man of the 147-160 class with one punch.
Starling faced a lot of hard punchers at 147, breland, brown, curry and honeyghan. But jackson altho not as skilled as those guys was a very big man at 154 and 160 and assuming this match was made at 154, that strength would be a factor.
Very hard to predict an outcome, but in theory starling if he was motivated would outbox jackson over 12. But i honestly cant see him escaping the power of jackson. Herol graham was a slick counter puncher and he attacked jackson too hard and was kayoed 1 shot and he had never been ko'd in 40 plus fights! If you look at Jacksons record in his prime, the guys who beat him were the ones able to fight fire with fire and take him out of there like mccallum and mclellan.
Starling never really had the aptitude to take a guy out of there.
He coasted in the second fight v breland, the same for ozaki and he couldnt cleanly finish a honeyghan who was finished for rounds and was in pure survival/bravery mode in the 7th,8th and 9th.
Equally if he had stepped it up against Nunn instead of using it as a high quality exhibition he could have won that match too.
Jackson KO Starling 9 rounds.