Quote Originally Posted by SorceryatCaesar View Post
Richard Steele, the referee, said every time he watches it, "it gets closer".

Same with me.

Take it out of context, and place it in a vacuum, and it's probably a draw.

But of course it wasn't in a vacuum.

Leonard won for a reason.
Yes fights are about perceptions and Leonard coming out of retirement, against a murderous Hagler who was untouched, anything Leonard was going to do was going to over emphasised and he nicked a close decision to make the fairy tale come reality.

However if that was against a mandatory challenger who did not carry much prestige and exactly the same happened the Hagler would have got the decision because all the challenger was doing was throwing pity pat ineffective punches during the rounds.