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Quote Originally Posted by LobowolfXXX View Post
Quote Originally Posted by electivemed View Post
Hagler never gave Hearns a return fight and that tells the story...........


Thus back to my original observation: Hagler won because it was a streetfight. Good for Hagler. Who else fought him like that ?? Nobody.... Why...bad strategy...blame Steward......

Hagler knew he would never would get that style fight out of Herans again........thus he ducked Hearns in 86,87,88,89,90...................................

Finally, coming in at 145 was a major mistake for hearns and bad management by his camp. It absoultly cost him in that fight.

You're Monday morning quarterbacking when you say it was a bad strategy. Pure 20-20 hindsight. If Hearns had tried to box, and lost, you'd be calling THAT a horrible strategy, and saying things like, "Oh, if he'd just slugged it out, he would have stopped him early, like he did with Duran. Why did he try to box him, like he did with Leonard and lost? He should have gone toe to toe."

Hearns and Steward knew that he couldn't keep Hagler off of him with a more defensive strategy, because they'd tried that strategy against Leonard and lost, and Hagler hit harder than Leonard. So they threw caution to the wind and tried to blitz him early. This was also not a bad shot because Hagler was a notoriously slow starter. It wasn't a bad strategy; it just didn't work.