{"id":254797,"date":"2025-07-11T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254797\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:09:09","slug":"top-trainer-emanuel-steward-had-no-doubt-who-would-win-thomas-hearns-vs-floyd-mayweather-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254797\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Trainer Emanuel Steward Had No Doubt Who Would Win Thomas Hearns vs Floyd Mayweather Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fantasy match-up between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/thomas-hearns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thomas Hearns<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/floyd-mayweather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a> has been the subject of many debates over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Hitman\u2019 Hearns rose to prominence during the eighties in what would be a golden era for boxing. The five-division world champion stood alongside the likes of \u2018Marvelous\u2019 Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard, known as the Four Kings.<\/p>\n<p>As for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/boxing\/sport\/player\/1352.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayweather<\/a>, the retired pound-for-pound star drew the curtain on his exceptional professional career back in 2017 won all 50 of his fights. He boasts victories over the likes of Canelo Alvarez, Oscar De La Hoya and Manny Pacquiao amongst many others.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/c_0GSE-A6Uk?si=006uMsRHWGAsrUwI&amp;t=23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resurfaced interview<\/a>, legendary trainer Emanuel Steward, who coached Hearns, shared his thoughts on what he believes the outcome would be in a fantasy showdown between \u2018Hitman\u2019 and Mayweather, of course backing his man but clearly explaining why.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI have no doubt in my mind, out of all respect to Mayweather for doing what he\u2019s did and what he\u2019s accomplished, that he would never be really a serious threat to me with Thomas Hearns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all Thomas Hearns is physically so much bigger and the fact that Thomas Hearns never ever had problems with technical boxers. Sugar Ray Leonard, he was never outboxed by Ray Leonard, Wilfred Benitez, the same as Virgil Hill, all the technical boxers were the guys who were the easiest for Tommy to beat because he had such a great left jab himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/thomas-hearns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hearns<\/a> suffered defeat on just a handful of occasions during his career, which came to an end in 2006. He shared the ring with an abundance of legendary fighters, proving himself to be one of the very best to have ever laced up the gloves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fantasy match-up between Thomas Hearns and Floyd Mayweather has been the subject of many debates over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-254797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114831698536071852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}