Quote Originally Posted by amat
Superfights have not happened since the beginning of boxing. Fighters have ALWAYS been ducked.

And ICB, before Leonard came out of retirement, Hagler had real interest in fighting Donald Curry. When Leonard came out to fight Hagler, McCallum fought Curry and that generated A LOT of interest in a Hagler - McCallum bout.

Curry was P4P number 1 before he lost to Honneyghan but was still a very big name. So it came as a huge shock when McCallum KO'd him, he was far from a prospect at that point. McCallum got no respect from anyone, he helf the 154 title for 4 years during Hagler's run, he was who people claim Margarito is now. And he called out Hagler and Hearns immediately after knocking out Curry.

This is from a 1987 Sports Illustrated article. McCallum is talking first.

"Hearns. Hagler. Any of those guys. Now that people know me, I want to be a fighting champion. I'd love to fight Hearns.''
''For a lot of money,'' said Hearns.
''That's right,'' McCallum said happily, envisioning a million-dollar payday. ''For a lot of money.''
Popular fighters cost more.
I didn't call Mccallum a prospect i was saying Hagler had big fights with Hearns Mugabi and Leonard he wasn't going to move down was he and i never see Mccallum saying he was going to move up so this fight couldn't of happened at that time because both men had big fights at there own weights.