Kalan wrote:Hagler wasn't that spectacular a KO guy IMO... He finished the chinny Hearns and that's the one that gives him the reputation.
But Hagler never got the smaller Leonard or Duran going... And he never got old Benny Briscoe, or beaten up Marcos Geraldo going... Geraldo had been knocked out 10 times before... Rodrigo Valdes smashed a young Benny Briscoe out with a tremendous left hook at 1:31 of this video.. Start it about 1:25
Kalan wrote:Hagler wasn't that spectacular a KO guy IMO... He finished the chinny Hearns and that's the one that gives him the reputation.
But Hagler never got the smaller Leonard or Duran going... And he never got old Benny Briscoe, or beaten up Marcos Geraldo going... Geraldo had been knocked out 10 times before... Rodrigo Valdes smashed a young Benny Briscoe out with a tremendous left hook at 1:31 of this video.. Start it about 1:25
Kalan wrote: Marciano knocked old Light Heavyweight Archie more down numerous times before stopping him - so he wasn't that fabulous a finisher... Beterbiev is a bigger Light Heavyweight than Rocky was -- and he crushes you with a shot
You missed Marciano's fights with Walcott, Rex Layne, and second fight with Charles.
Syntax Error wrote:Mike Tyson - if he had you going, you were gone.
I can only think of Douglas who survived & that was in the 8th when Tyson was tired.
He couldn't finish guys like Quick Tillis, James Smith, Razor Ruddock, and Tony Tucker either... Not to mention the guys who trashed and stopped Mike.
You could say that about every boxer that was KO artist & lost or went the distance.
He never had Tillis, Smith, Ruddock (rematch) & Tucker ready to go.
What I said initially stands; apart from Douglas (who wasn't very hurt & was fresher than Tyson) can you remember a time when Tyson had an opponent down & very hurt that he didn't finish?
