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    Default Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    Certainly is for me.. this is THE fight that turned me into a hardcore Boxing guy. If there is such thing as love at first sight, this fight did it for me instantly..

    What do you remember about this fight?

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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    It should of never been stopped. Hearns was exhausted but he wasn't getting beat up. He should of been allowed to make it out the round and get his minute rest

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    Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise View Post
    It should of never been stopped. Hearns was exhausted but he wasn't getting beat up. He should of been allowed to make it out the round and get his minute rest
    Debatable but the result was inevitable imo.. Look what happened in the rematch, the fight was identical to the first one..

    Hearns has the upperhand in the early-midrounds, then fatigue kicks in and Leonard comes alive to take over..

    They could have fought 5x and I can't imagine things turning out any other way..

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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    No, not all all, not by a country mile.

    Classic fight, but far from favorite fight of all-time.

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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise View Post
    It should of never been stopped. Hearns was exhausted but he wasn't getting beat upt
    Apparently you have never been inside the ring
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    Great fight. Good stoppage. Both guys proved their greatness in this one. I thought Tommy won the rematch easy, but Ray refused to lose in this one.

    Hagler vs Hearns was the first fight I saw, and it is still my favorite to this day.

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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    No. But it's up there with my all-time favs, 'cause it had all the ingredients. Two already great fighters living up to the fight hype. A fight with ebb and flow (love that). A 15-round fight, the way championship fights still ought to be. Leonard turning from boxer to puncher and Hearns from puncher to boxer.

    Yep.... it's pretty up there among my favorite fights.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NVSemin View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise View Post
    It should of never been stopped. Hearns was exhausted but he wasn't getting beat upt
    Apparently you have never been inside the ring
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    Quote Originally Posted by FinitoElDinamita View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise View Post
    It should of never been stopped. Hearns was exhausted but he wasn't getting beat up. He should of been allowed to make it out the round and get his minute rest
    Debatable but the result was inevitable imo.. Look what happened in the rematch, the fight was identical to the first one..

    Hearns has the upperhand in the early-midrounds, then fatigue kicks in and Leonard comes alive to take over..

    They could have fought 5x and I can't imagine things turning out any other way..
    I have yet to meet one person who believes Leonard deserved the draw in the rematch. Hearns won the 2nd fight

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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    Quote Originally Posted by NVSemin View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Violent Demise View Post
    It should of never been stopped. Hearns was exhausted but he wasn't getting beat upt
    Apparently you have never been inside the ring
    Apparently you have never visited planet Earth.

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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    Macklin v Moore is the best fight if all time, this is a fact

    leonard v hearns was alright
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    Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
    Macklin v Moore is the best fight if all time, this is a fact

    leonard v hearns was alright
    I think its the magnitude of the matchup more than it actually being the best fight.
    Two great WW champs , Macklin v Moore was maybe a better fight in your opinion but hardly caught the imagination of the whole World.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
    Macklin v Moore is the best fight if all time, this is a fact

    leonard v hearns was alright
    I think its the magnitude of the matchup more than it actually being the best fight.
    Two great WW champs , Macklin v Moore was maybe a better fight in your opinion but hardly caught the imagination of the whole World.
    macklin moore wasnt the best fight in my opinion, it was the best fight and thats a fact

    leonard hearns only had a bigger audience coz there are more people in america and it had a better marketing campaign and more people watched american tv at the time across the world, most countries didnt even have their own tv channels so they had to watch americans

    the british title is still the original and most coverted belt in the world, we dont have silver champions and super champions and interim champions, we have the champion which means you are the best in britain and britain is the best country in the world, and so all this means that the macklin moore fight had more on the line than leonard hearns and was therefore a better fight as well as being a better fight
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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    When that fight happened, it was on ON TV, which was a subscription service and we didn't have it. I walked around, all over the place, until I found some people having a party in their back yard, with a big, old style projection screen to watch the fight. I stood there looking over their fence until their dog came and barked at me, then I'd walk around the block, come back and watch until the dog barked again.

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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Lord Al View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by erics44 View Post
    Macklin v Moore is the best fight if all time, this is a fact

    leonard v hearns was alright
    I think its the magnitude of the matchup more than it actually being the best fight.
    Two great WW champs , Macklin v Moore was maybe a better fight in your opinion but hardly caught the imagination of the whole World.
    macklin moore wasnt the best fight in my opinion, it was the best fight and thats a fact

    leonard hearns only had a bigger audience coz there are more people in america and it had a better marketing campaign and more people watched american tv at the time across the world, most countries didnt even have their own tv channels so they had to watch americans

    the british title is still the original and most coverted belt in the world, we dont have silver champions and super champions and interim champions, we have the champion which means you are the best in britain and britain is the best country in the world, and so all this means that the macklin moore fight had more on the line than leonard hearns and was therefore a better fight as well as being a better fight
    As many here will disagree with you and it isn't a known fact , then you will find it is your opinion that Moore v Macklin was the best fight . - FACT

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    Default Re: Is Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns your favorite fight of all-time?

    I have not seen it all but will sit down and watch it. This was certainly better than Tito v Oscar.
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