Jose Napoles vs. Thomas Hearns

great fight. hearns on cuts

 

I agree with suzieQ

Also you have to rate Cuevas as a harder hitter than Napoles as far as seventies welters go.

 

jose would get demolished in the same manner as pipino and roberto by devastating knockout:think

 

Napoles isn't getting demo'd, I don't think, but this is a matchup where size may come into play in a big way, just as did when Napoles faced Monzon. Hearns, after all, was a huge Welter, whereas Napoles was a rather small one (a natural 135-140 pounder, in fact). That said, Hearns wasn't the economical pacer that Monzon was. He often started the fight as the front-runner and made it known so. For this reason I think he'd be a lot more susceptible to being tagged with something big early on. Napoles's only chance in this one is to fight just as he did against Monzon: pressuring slowly while using his offense in explosive bursts, hoping to catch Hearns on the chin with one of those winging, slicing hooks. It's not out of the realm of possibility that he could KO Hearns, in my opinion, but I'd suspect if Hearns were to get hurt he'd simply resort to boxing like he did Leonard, effectively shutting down the effectiveness of that plan from Napoles.

My guess is that he'd rack up the points during the middle rounds while starting to find his range more and more often and, barring another big shot, would stop Napoles at some point in the mid to late rounds through an accumulation. It's hard not to see Napoles's soft skin being cut up by Hearns's arrsenal.

 

At WW, I see Napoles slipping Tommy's jab, and tiring him out through effective rib punching. Napoles by late TKO in that one.

At 154, Hearns would obliterate him. Mantequilla would be out of his element here, while Tommy is peaking.

 

ah yes...Jose Napoles...the "Enry Cooper of the welterweightsatsch

 

Napoles isn't stopping Hearns, at least not early doors.

Hearns/Duran always ****s me up whenever I try and think this one through.

 

look at the trouble pipino and roberto had against hearns between the 2 of them i dont think they landed one clean punch and when they got hit boy did they get hit pipino was out like a light and roberto was out even before hitting the canvas i think jose being short like these other 2 would not of been able to land a clean shot and would of been met with the same punishment:think

 

That'd probably be one of his only chances to do so.

 

hearns by stoppage

 

hearns by ko. too fast too tall and had a better all round boxing arsenal.

 

*Not many beat a prime Hearns... man, that right was possibly the most devasting weapon any fighter ever had. Prime Hearns Ko's Napoles inside of 5.