Quote Originally Posted by skyler
Quote Originally Posted by Gyrokai
Quote Originally Posted by "PRIDE OF BOSTON"
duran over undef Leonard IMO But the others were great too
CC back at yah.

Well the way I see it is this...

... Hearns should have boxed Hagler. Mofo would have further opened gashes on Hagler's face/head with his punching power.

... Leonard should have boxed Duran. Awesome fight.

------So two of those fights were awesome just because the other fighter should have boxed,
instead they were stupid.

And the Hearns KO Duran was just sheer raw POWER "talent" that demolished Duran.


I like Leonard over Hagler because both fighters came in shape and fought their fight,
but ONE won the fight because he was smart, not because the other guy was stupid.
I think that that was Hagler's style, he was trying to be methodical, but you can't
be over-methodical against a slick boxer who flurries.
Hearns had no choice but to fight the way he did. When Hagler put the pressure on, there wasn't sh!t you could do but fight for your life. Plus, being that Hearns ran out of gas against little Leonard, I'm sure Manny Stewart and the team spent the entire training camp planning on trying to take Hagler out early, as that was his only chance to win.
That fight is the greatest WAR ever in boxing history.
If that's the case, then it takes two to tango, Hearns wanted to kill Hagler and vice versa.
It wouldn't have been otherwise. That said, Hearns could have played it "safer"
but he wanted to decapitate Hagler. He almost KO'd Hagler too, although
Hagler never admited that he was stunned first.

(((...... KO'd... I should say "Hurt" heheh Hagler and his hard head. heh.)))

Hagler to me, is a methodical fighter who happens to turns it up a gear
if you stand and trade a la Hagler vs The Beast.