Rate the Fantastic Four

[Kev]

How would you guys rate the great four champions of the 80's Hagler, Hearns, Leonard and Duran?

Here's my list.

4. Hagler. Great middleweight one of the best ever but he's 4th on this list cos he only did his business in one division.

3. Hearns. So close between him and Leonard as a couple of Leonards decisions were questionable, I'll put the Hitman third though becuase he had a weak chin and was naturally a much bigger man than Leonard.

2. Ray Leonard. Arguably the best of the bunch as he won the most titles in the most weight classes and was the only one of the four to score wins against all of the other three. A couple of questionable decisions count against him though.

1. Roberto Duran. Duran is my favourite, an awesome fighter whose 'no mas' against Leonard and his KO at the hands of Hearns, along with a couple poor showings can be overlooked as he was the smallest of them all, a natural lightweight and went on to go 15 rounds with Marvin Hagler one of the top 3 or 4 middleweights of all time!

Thats the equivalent of Ricky Hatton moving up and fighting Jermain Taylor for the middleweight championship of the world now. His wins over tough competiton like Leonard, Cuevas, Moore and his awesome win over Iran Barkley to win a middleweight crown make him in my opinion at least the best of the bunch and one of the top 4 or 5 fighters of all time.

What do you guys think?

[Violent Demise]

1, Hearns
2, Hagler
3, Duran

[rrbong]

1. Hearns
2. Duran
3. Hagler

[CutMeMick]

'Manos De Piedra'
'Motor City Cobra'
'Sugar'
'Marvelous'

[landmine950]

Reed Richards-older guy some grey hair like me,smart level headed,a natural leader. Ladies like his ability to make things GROW!

Sue Richards - pretty hot nice ass. every woman should be able to make herslf invisible,like during a big PPV fight

Johnny Storm - Hot young high flier,dont go to the bar with him,he'll get all the best chicks.

Benn Grimm - Will have your back in any bar fight,ugly bastard makes you look better next to him "it's clobberin time!!"




OHHH boxers!!! duran!

[CutMeMick]

Reed Richards-older guy some grey hair like me,smart level headed,a natural leader. Ladies like his ability to make things GROW!

Sue Richards - pretty hot nice ass. every woman should be able to make herslf invisible,like during a big PPV fight

Johnny Storm - Hot young high flier,dont go to the bar with him,he'll get all the best chicks.

Benn Grimm - Will have your back in any bar fight,ugly bastard makes you look better next to him "it's clobberin time!!"




OHHH boxers!!! duran!

Thats the first thing that came to mind when I 1st read it.....

[SigmaMu]

This is a tough one for me but

I have to go with:

Sugar Ray Leonard
Roberto Duran
Marvin Hagler
Thomas Hearns

I never liked Duran but I give him his props. It's not that I did not like him but my favorite fighter was Sugar Ray.

All of them great and the memories of them are forever with me and some of you too who were a part of that great generation of fighters.

[Taeth]

Um it has to be

Leonard
Hagler
Hearns
Duran

... at least during their era... Leonard did in his prime beat all of them, and Duran lost against all of them I have him last, Hearns beat Duran, and outboxed Leonard, but didn't have the chin so he lost to both Hagler and Leonard. Hagler DID lost to Leonard... he was outpunched, and outboxed... Leonard was more past his prime than Hagler, and Hagler fought a dumb fight which a great shouldn't be doing. As for during their whole career I would have Duran #2 behind Leonard

My top 10 p4p ever not particular order except RJJ
RJJ
PBF
Pernell Whitaker
Leonard
Duran
Prime Tyson
Ray Robinson
Hagler
Ali
Hopkins

runner ups
Toney(when he used to train)
Winky
prime Nunn
Joe Louis
Willie Pep
prime Archie Moore
Aaron Pryor
Liston
Foreman
Holyfield
Hearns
... my list is always changing.

[CutMeMick]

My top 10 p4p ever not particular order except RJJ
RJJ
PBF
Pernell Whitaker
Leonard
Duran
Prime Tyson
Ray Robinson
Hagler
Ali
Hopkins

runner ups
Toney(when he used to train)
Winky
prime Nunn
Joe Louis
Willie Pep
prime Archie Moore
Aaron Pryor
Liston
Foreman
Holyfield
Hearns
... my list is always changing.

I sure hope your list is always changing, cause to NOT have 'Finito' is a crime...IMO

[BIG H]

Duran
Hagler
Leonard
Hearns


If Hearns had a better chin, he could've been the best of all!!

[LegendBoxing65]

are we talking in the 80s how they rate? in the 80s I put it Leonard,Hagler,Hearns, Duran. If all time I put it Duran, Hearns,Leonard, Hagler. Hearns was the only one to go into the 90s and beat Virgil Hill a 10 time defending titlist and undefeated. That does alot for him in my book.. But in the 80s.. he didn't beat Hill yet.

[yoitsdan]

All four of them achieved incredible things, but Duran is my favourite, butthe best fighter out of the lot is probably Ray Leonard.

[Kev]

are we talking in the 80s how they rate? in the 80s I put it Leonard,Hagler,Hearns, Duran. If all time I put it Duran, Hearns,Leonard, Hagler. Hearns was the only one to go into the 90s and beat Virgil Hill a 10 time defending titlist and undefeated. That does alot for him in my book.. But in the 80s.. he didn't beat Hill yet.

I meant in an all time sense really.

It has to be Duran for me, mainly because he was a lightweight who kept moving up. All the other three were much bigger men, Leonard was 5 ft 10, Hagler I think around the same and Hearns was over 6ft.

Duran was 5 ft 7 the same as Cotto and Hatton so to do what he did in his career was remarkable. And he fought for nearly 100 years as well!

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

As simple minded as it sounds, im going to vote in order of size and weight.

1. Duran
2. Leonard
4. Hagler
3. Herans

Although i will always maintain that Hearns was the best boxer

[cockey cockney]

1.Leonard (Wins against all of them, beat a defensive wizard in Benitez by stoppage, Titles in the most weights, great heart)
2.Duran (One of the greatest lightweights of all time, understandable loses against the others look at size difference)
3.Hagler (a GREAT middleweight champion, great entertaining style and a ROCK SOLID chin)
4.Hearns (stoppage losses against Hagler and Leonard hurt his resume here but if he had a chin who knows!)