text: joey giardello vs thomas hearns.  who wins? 15 rounds at middleweight tough guy ~                      in my opinion, joey gets knocked out cold in less than 5 rounds. joey was a real tough cookie back in the day, but he lacked the power to hurt and stop herans. herans being the much taller of the two would throw his right hand at will and catch giardello every time he threw it. joey was notorious for getting hit a lot.                     a little inside bit for you, augie semeca who use to be charles brewer's trainer and one time south philadelphia gym owner and i were talking a couple months back at joe hands gym in south philly about tough fighters from philly and i brought up giardello and about two minutes later joey came walking through the door. he sat down and started talking to augie and augie introduced me to him, anyways to make a long story short and without pulling any punches joey said "i never trained, i'd be out with the boys all of the time, i didn't have time to train, there was too much going on. i was always a tough kid and could handle my own, but i never fully dedicated myself to the sport."      tommy's workouts with steward at the kronk gym are legendary. i worked out at the gym before and it's always hot in there no matter what time of the year you're there. tommy worked the pads with manny and it would resemble a actual fight. tommy would hit the bag for a hour straight with only a minute rest between rounds. milton mccory would often be heard saying "that man aint right, alls he wants to do is train like a crazy man"      this would be the biggest difference in this fight tommy would be able to go non-stop until he stops giardello, don't get me wrong here, joey wouldn't be a push over he'd crack tommy with some good shots too, but it wouldn't be enough to keep tommy off of him.