July 28, 1994
Former World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Morrison was dropped twice, once in round 6 and again in round 10, but still managed to fight to a draw against Ross Puritty.
Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
July 28, 1994
Former World Heavyweight Champion Tommy Morrison was dropped twice, once in round 6 and again in round 10, but still managed to fight to a draw against Ross Puritty.
Convention Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
This was my first time seeing Ross purrity and he put on a great performance! To give an already established and more experienced fighter in Tommy morrison the kind of contest he did was very impressive. And Purrity's string of great performances continued with Jorge gonzalez and Joe hipp!
We were just kids on the Jr High wrestling team. We all had aspirations to be great and Ross achieved it. Congrats Ross on your accomplishments and WBA title.
Fair decision. I thought Morrison won six rounds to four, but the two knockdowns scored by Purrity evened things up on points.
He was lethargic fighter but he had a good hand speed, he throwed too less punches
Purity was not a man to take lightly. Nice guy too. I got a boxing lesson from him once.
I think he could have done a better job of cutting of the ring in the last round and would have beat Morrison if he did; however, both were tired.
Do we truely respect and appreciate this technology we have to capture a moment in time ,all 5 senses replaying as if it's actually happening in real time. Tommy is resting in the ground in reality but here he is swinging away. Everything is happening again.... Every drop of sweat... If you have old parents or young children then FILM THEM!!!!! TRUELY AMAZING.... Imagine life was a simulation 😮😮😮😮
Ross Purity had one of the hardest chins in history. He defeated Wladimir Klitschko in the 11th. round when Klitschko gassed.
Yeah I saw the German broadcast. That was like a rope a dope. Wlad punched himself out and got knocked out in a fight where he was ahead on points because of activity.
Plus Vitali was the only guy to ever stop Purrity
@@igolfjtweetler4097 He got against Vitali on cuts. He only stopped 3 times. 2 of them were on cuts. The other time was his 2nd pro fight (and his 1st loss) he got stopped in the 1st round after getting knocked down twice.
As kids, Ross was tough as nails. At wrestling practice, every time I tried to out wrestle him, he beat me with pure strength. But he did have 50lbs on me, otherwise…..
Tommy's limitations were exposed here for all willing to see it. Mercer and Lewis didn't miss a thing.
Lewis didn't KO Morrison, he jabbed on his cut until fight was stopped. Not particularly that impressive even though I said Lewis was the best boxer ever. Ray Mercer on the other hand, took out Morrison after he gassed out.
Morrison fought both Mercer and Purity, both of which had iron chins, Tommy was mismanaged, he didn't really have to fight either, bad management.
Look at it this way: Morrison had a bunch of singles for RBI and Puritty hit 2 home runs for his RBI... or look at it another way: Morrison kicked field goals for his points, while Puritty scored a couple touchdowns for his. (Both resulting in a tie.)
Morrison was a good boxer and an excellent puncher. He was fast, can slip a punch, was tough, and can get a guy out of there. He was very tight which I think effected his stamina and left himself open when looking for the big punch. But every fighter has pros and things they can work on. I would have loved to see Morrison work with Emanuel Stewart. He was still so young and had much left in him. Very sad. Purity was tough as nails with a good punch and a chin of granite. Much respect to both warriors.
For sure!! Never thought of Morrison working under Steward, but yeah, works for me lol! Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
At least Tommy could get off the floor after being knocked down and fight back, even mike Tyson never got off of the floor after being knocked down and won or even drew a fight.
True. Tommy was down in several fights and got up and won, like against Ruddock. Despite what people say, Morrison definately had chin. Otherwise he'd be ko'ed by Foreman.
Tyson never got annihilated the way Morrison got annihilated against michael bent..?people always pointed out that Morrison did better against ruddock,than Tyson did...but it's also important to remember that Tyson did much better against carl the truth williams than Morrison did
There's no reason to bring up Tyson. That's what casuals do.
@@RaySierraTrue. I am a fan of The Duke but you have to look at the context of them performances. Carl Williams and Razor Ruddock were way over the hill when they fought Morrison. Tyson fought Williams when he was the number one contender, and he fought Ruddock when he was considered one of the best heavyweights in the world.
@@ZBOXINGTALK yeah that's true,people fail to point that out...(I'm actually a fan of morrison too)
Morrison was lucky to have survived that 6th round. He took a lot of leather.
Winner tommy
The Boss was a tough man.
Supposedly Purrity and Morrison became good friends.
its cool when you hear that fighters that shared the squared circle together later go on to become friends!
When Tommy was having trouble there was always a reason as many other fighters found out
Morrison just forgot his one power punch skill to knockout puritty in that fight of year 1995
Ross Purity is weird he fought Tommy to a draw and beat Wlad but he had many losses
Fought a lot of tough guys. Battle tested. Styles make fights.
Tommy won that fight because he threw a lot of body punches also.
How come no sound for the fight 😭 ?.
Turn up your volume
How the hell did purity enter this fight with a poor record of 11-8 ?!!
Easy. Those fighters had a combined record of 40-1 when Purity fought them.
Fighters like Ross Purrity have to earn every dime and opportunity they get.
Purity came up the hard way.
How the hell Ross purity got 8 losses to 11 wins! Like no shit they fix fights. One day the gonna put a stop to fight fixing and there ain't gonna be self righteous spoiled brats that gotta fix a fight like bloody marry so they can get all the money for themselves!!!!!! People gonna put money on who they think can win and if you lose you gonna take it in the ass like everybody else!!!
I addressed this on an earlier comment asking the same thing. The combined record of the fighters at the time Puritty fought them was 40-1. Puritty's management knew they had a tough fighter and put him in with unbeaten fighters to give them a steady foe early in their careers
Tommy aged very quickly after 24yrs old! Just think of what he could have been, if he did not party, drink, do drugs and bed women every night? He could have been a great champion, keeping the belts he had won, for a much longer time than he did? This, and the fact that he was HIV+ve, with no anti-virals on early diagnosis. Never the less, he is a role model to other young men, not to live as he did!
He didn't get HIV from females.
Not with that weak chin of his
The narrative that Tommy had a weak chin is a myth. Chinny fighters don't get off the canvas as many times as Morrison did. His problem was poor coaching, poor management, and an insane, destructive lifestyle. Had he been coached by a Manny or Cus, learned better defense, head movement and better footwork he could have gone down as an all-time great. Hell, the guy didn't even know how to tie up in those crucial moments.
Definitely not a myth. Knocked out by journeyman Michael Bentt, knocked down twice by Carl Williams. I wouldn’t call that a stellar chin. Not his fault though you either have a great chin or you don’t. Tommy was a good fighter but not at the level to beat the best heavyweights of that era
@@GDavis49 Fair enough. But how many times was he KO'd? And what about all the fights where he withstood significant punishment and never went down? You can bet that over 12 rounds with Big George, Tommy took some sensational punches. Yet he took it all. And I'm not claiming he has a "stellar" chin. I'm challenging the notion that he had a "weak" chin. Certainly he was no George Chuvalo, but his chin was adequate to be a world champion if he, A) had top notch training. And B) didn't spend most of his time chasing tail all over the US. IMO, Morrison had all the tools to be a top 20 HW. He just threw most of those tools away.
@@jakemitchell1671 I’d agree with most of your points but he stayed with the same trainer almost his entire career so apparently he didn’t feel the need to move on. Could he have been an elite level champion making the changes you mentioned? Possibly but of course we’ll never know.
@@GDavis49 We'll never know, for sure. But I will always contend that Tommy had the basic skills to be an elite HW. But just look at his lifestyle. The dude screwed around so much he contracted AIDS!! His biographers recount things that would make your head spin. Ten, 15 girls (and guys) a night. His appetite for sex and drugs was legendary. That NEVER coincides with elite athletic performance. Mike Tyson will admit that.
Ross gave Tommy a good fight but Tommy was the clear winner.
Clearly he wasn't. The fight was rightfully a draw.
RP won this fight. He nearly stopped Morrison in the final round.
I thought it was correctly scored a draw. Morrison won more rounds. Puritty evened it out due to the knockdowns.
@@castro92777 Morrison didn't score a knockdown but was given a 2 PT round by Al Bernstein who had it a draw. Ross scored 2 knockdowns which is +4 points. And Ross won a few other rounds as well. They gave Morrison a draw because they didn't want him to lose the Foreman fight. Whether by 1-3 points Ross should have got the nod.
@@percyvaughan I understand your point. Bernstein does a great job. Fighters can still be awarded with a 2 pt round without scoring a knockdown provided they clearly hurt and dominate their opponent in said round. That being said, in my opinion I thought the draw was fair and the media covering it at the time didn't have an issue with the outcome either as much as I can remember lol. It was a while ago.
@@castro92777 I remember that fight vividly. Rewatch the fight especially round 10. Morrison got knocked down. Then was nearly ko'd. That should have been a 3 point round. The round Bernstein gave Morrison a 2 pt round was a left hook to the body and Ross Purrity was a against ropes and fought back. But like you said we all have our opinions on the fight.
@@percyvaughan Morrison fought Foreman in 93... A year earlier than this bout. Judges weren't doing Tommy any favours here, only 1 had him winning by a point.
Purity is a clear winner 🏆
Clearly he wasn't. The fight was a draw, and rightfully so.