Quote Originally Posted by BIG H
I think he was great, just not as great as a lot of people think, i.e I don't think he is an all time top 10 p4per. I know it means nothing now, but had the 1st Hearns fight been 12 rounds Leonard would've lost a very clear decision, although I do give him massive credit for stopping Hearns eventually.
I think the fact that he did not seem to love the game like some other fighters and was always either threatening to retire or actually retiring and then making a comeback didn't exactly indere him to people

Ive heard this brought up many times, I don't know if you were doing so as a knock on Leonard or not, but it's really irrelevant that he WOULD have lost a decision, if the fight was 12 rounds... It's not as though it was changed to 15 that morning, both fighters knew exactly what they had to prepare for, a 15 round war. Leonard won the war of attrition, and he would've had another entire 3 minutes even if Hearns had somehow made it out of the rd he was stopped in. It's not as though you hear people talking about how if JCC vs Taylor 1 had been 10 rds Chavez woulda got shutout... Even though he literally KO'ed Taylor with seconds left.