Quote Originally Posted by TyBuff
Hagler's big mistake was giving into all of SRL's demands before the fight. The size of the ring and the number of rounds. The biggest thing was the size of the ring, SRL had way to much room to run.

I read somewhere that Hagler was tricked into demanding it over 12 rounds by SRL.

SRL's team said they wanted it over 15 rounds and Haglers camp to be difficalt said straight away it had to be over 12 rounds which Ray wanted in the first place.

Dont know if it is true but its a good story.