I don't really know if Hearns could have put Hagler away but at the time of his hand breaking I figured if anyone it could have been him. I remember something I read once in Ring Magazine and it made me wonder if this had anything to do with his loss to Leonard and Hagler. Emanuel Steward was a good trainer and recognized talent building upon that like Dundee, Freddy Brown with Duran, Eddie Futch and the list goes on a little. Steward used to crank up the heat in Kronk Gym winter, summer, fall or spring and this would cause the fighters to sweat and I concur dehydrate. Steward's champions I felt would leave a piece of themselves on the Kronk floor. My point is that the man Hearns would probably have trained harder and left some more on that floor. Hearns was a welterweight for too long according to what I read and he has always been top heavy being built more like a light heavyweight when it all ended but in my belief too soon. If only he moved up and if only his legs were in tune with his upper body and Hagler knew this and pressed on then but later we will never know now.