Sugar Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns II (Highlights)
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On January 24, 1989, promoter Bob Arum announced that Leonard and Hearns would fight on June 12. The contracts were signed at a press conference in New York City on January 31.
The fight was billed as "The War."
Leonard was guaranteed $13 million, and Hearns was guaranteed $11 million. Leonard also received 40 percent of the promotional gross over $30 million, and Hearns received 35 percent.
Leonard was the WBC Super Middleweight Champion, and Hearns was the WBC No. 1-ranked super middleweight contender. Hearns was also the WBO Super Middleweight Champion, but his title was not at stake. Leonard refused to have anything to do with the WBO due to its involvement with fighters from apartheid South Africa.
Leonard dictated the terms of the rematch, including a reported clause that carried big financial penalties if either fighter weighed more than 164 pounds at the official weigh-in.
Caesars Palace paid $8 million to host the fight. It took place in an outdoor stadium before a capacity crowd of 15,300.
The fight was shown live on closed circuit television in 1,600 locations and on pay-per-view, which was available to about nine million homes in the United States.
On June 8, at the final pre-fight press conference at Caesars Palace, Hearns and Emanuel Steward, his manager and trainer, accused Leonard of taking steroids. Leonard, who had noticeably bulked up for the fight, laughed off the allegation and offered to take a drug test. "It's a joke," said Mike Trainer, Leonard's attorney. "They're throwing it out to stir things up and get some more publicity for the fight."
The Nevada State Athletic Commission said they had no plans to test either boxer for steroids, although urine tests for other drugs would be taken immediately before the fight.
Leonard was a 3 to 1 favorite, and the odds were 15 to 1 against the fight ending in a draw. boxrec.com
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Sugar Ray Leonard vs Thomas Hearns l (Highlights)
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@Delboy says False and ydksab
Good old days.
I remember watching this fight live on TV with my dad.
Srl reminded me of a lighter, Ali.
@Delboy says ray was no fraud.
You must know that politics plays it's part in boxing, too.
It's not about what the fighter's want, it's what the management wants and what they say! Goes.
Did srl want a rematch? Probably not, but he would not back down from it.
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One of the greatest travesties in boxing history. This decision was a joke. Hearns won this fight by at last 3-4 rounds. Leonard got knocked down not once, but twice! Just goes to show how corrupt boxing was back in the day.
Tommy definitely got robbed in this one. Great fight nonetheless. Really in both fights, Tommy matched up really well against Ray. Hears held on in this one, and deserved the win. But he also dominated most of the first fight, then ran out of gas. Have to give Ray credit though too, he showed a huge heart in both fights.
Still is
Judges loved handing SRL fights he clearly lost.
Ya a estás alturas Leonard abia perdido parte de su agilidad y velocidad, las armas de Thomas que son su alcance y físico logicamente daría para más tiempo , sin embargo gran pelea par de fenómenos al igual que hagler , hay despuesito duran , 👍👍
Hahahah boxing is a joke that beeeach judge who scored a draw?? When leonard went down 2x come on now.
Hearns, Leonard, Hagler and Duran, greatest era of boxing.
Even the lighter weights (featherweight, lightweight) had great fighters in that era. Light Heavyweights too.
Tyson, Lewis, holyfield era
👍🏿👍🏿
@@hannibalbeats24 that was the 90s this is the 80s
@@hannibalbeats24 bowe
Where are the great fights like this today? What an era. What a war!
I Love watching these old fights. I remember back in the day never ever missing a fight because they were all on TV. Now everything is all about the money and you have to pay per view everything. It was so cool back in the day seeing them all. Thank you for putting these on UA-cam I really enjoy them.
To his credit, Ray admitted he lost the fight and said Tommy deserved the decision.
Lies
@@GUIGOU2013 What's a lie? Hearns beat this fight, and Ray said he did.
@@teddyjam8134 Leonard said he could have lost her but he didn't lose her. You can't watch boxing!
@@GUIGOU2013 Look Sugar Ray is my all-time favorite boxer, but he lost this fight to Hearns. It's okay Hearns is a great boxer like Sugar Ray.
@@teddyjam8134 auf wiedersehen!
Hearns is a machine. Love his style. And he is great
I was not a fan of Hearns, but he clearly won that fight. Leonard won 3 or maybe 4 rounds the most. That decision was one of the worst ever.
He won the last thing the judges saw. Hearts was hanging onto him for dear life, spending almost a minute hugging. Otherwise he would have hit the canvas
Another fight SRL clearly lost along with the horrendous Hagler decision which boxing will reverse in Marvin's memory if they have any shred of integrity left.
@@CC-jl7jzI agree that Hearns won this right but Leonard clearly outboxed Hagler.
Never hurt him(Hagler did hurt Leonard) but Sugar just outboxed him and avoided getting hit.
everytime you comment on UA-cam I fucken queef 6 times. that's 6 queeves per comment. for example, 10 comments would produce 60 queeves if my math is correct. oh God I need to go I have to freaking queef.
Yeah but tbh some of those rounds with hearns hurt was 10-8 rounds complete domination which means he won 6 rounds
I remember watching this fight as a kid. Leonard went down twice and still got a draw. Hearn clearly won this fight.
Fury went down twice in Wilder 1 and clearly won the fight.
@@davefloyd9443 but tyson has dominated the fight for like 8 rounds ffs...
@@rasliqodir4249 True, no one really dominated in this one but Hearns clearly won.
SRL was amazing but just annoyed the hell outta me for some reason.
Hearns always looked like he was enjoying himself the most....
I ordered it on PPV at 12 yrs old lol...great times
Leonard was the original Mayweather /canelo
This ended up being a popularity contest. Leonard was always popular because he was always well spoken and upbeat. So even though he clearly lost this fight - having been knocked down twice while Hearns was never in very serious trouble, the guys with the microphones liked him- but they knew they couldn't give him the win - even with the tie the crowd was chanting "BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT, BULLSHIT!"
Hearns won this fight but I disagree about Hearns never being in trouble.
hearns was classy after the fight, Leonard didn't beat a past his prime Hagler either, but that one was atleast close enough for legitimate arguments. this fight wasn't even close. don't know what fight these nearsighted judges were watching, but Leonard's pitterpats usually make the kissasses in the stands cheer, but fights aren't judged by fan reaction, atleast they shouldn't be. this queer match made my fat wife queef a few times.
What fight were u watching, bruh? I saw at least 5 or 6 rounds where hearns legs looked like rubberbands. Hearns was hurt several times in this fight. The judges saw what I saw. Maybe you should watch it one more time.
So happy that I grew up in the Golden Age of Boxing.
You grew up in 40's and 50's?
Thumbs Up 2 You. Enjoying the great era of Boxing
I grew up in the Google age of boxing.
Traveling Tal 👏U was most definitely in the good prime of boxing what we got in our ERROR IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE the heavyweight Boxing rigged boxer's taking BAGGS for Ls out of shape boxer's CHAMPIONS Its SuccS MAN🙄
Just what I was thinking.
S. R. L. is my favorite fighter of all time, but even he admitted Hearns won the second fight...happy I grew up in the Golden Era of boxing!!! Men were true warriors!!!
i am from argentina and mi favourity is leonard :)
He also said Hearns was the best fighter he ever faced.
I never heard Sugar Ray say that but if he did, good for Ray!
Sugar Ray had a lot of fans but this fight was not a draw. Ray was knocked down twice. Hearns was staggered but not put down. He won. Ray lost.
@@dghumphreys10 you can search on here, he definitely admits defeat
Tommy Hearns won this fight..... period
Even Leonard admitted it. Highway robbery
@Koraun 😂😂
Hearns won
It was scored a draw. It is recorded in the history books as a draw. Period.
I agree but I guess came to the amount of time sugar Ray had him hurt.. many times I thought Hearns was about to go down but yeah he was robbed
That's one thing about life is that we age, our prime years are very very limited, and that there is no do-over..I feel bad for Hearn, because the moments like this don't come often or not at all, so he should've won and allowed to bathe in glory after a hard fought 12 rounds...
hearns is like a praying mantis, some idiot was trying to tell me canelo would knock him out recently lmfao
Canelo wouldn't make it 6 rounds with Tommy.
Cant compare the two.diff tim, diff erra,thats lik comparing the 69 corvett stingray to the latest model of stingrays.no comparison.
Its not fair to say...different eras
Lol a praying mantis with a glass jaw😂
@@jt2727
Hearns has a glass jaw?
Stop embaressing yourself
the greatest fights are when 2 great boxers bring out the best in each other
Back when BOXING was great to watch, and the judge's were as corrupt as today.
Yup and.....yup.
You fought everybody then wasn't no ducking
Hearns v hagler ....don't need no judges !!!!!
@@davidscott1052
Best fight of all time in boxing
Cause promoter that time always game for the big fights
What a fantastic explosive fight. Both boxers gave us some brilliant fights back in the day. Hats off to them 🎩🥊🥊
Alan garcia
Leonard had a couple of fights where it was apparent he lost except to the judges....This fight, and the Hagler fight come to mind....
Ray Leonard clearly won Hagler fight, considering it was a boxing match, not a fight! He lost to Hearns here tho, imo.
Haggler beat Leonard also....u could tell even the announcers/commentators were biased.
Ray Leonard beat the piss outta hagler 😅
@@jacobsaunders1092 Who beat the piss out of your IQ ????
Hagler won the Leonard fight easily. Boxing has been and is still corrupt!
As a hearns fan back then this broke my heart and I realized how corrupt boxing was..
One of the biggest "Bullshit" decisions in recent memory, even Leonard admitted he lost.
En este segundo enfrentamiento todos vimos ganar a Tommy Hearns...sin embargo los jueces dieron empate...le robaron la pelea al gran Hearns.
@@maurovazquez5207 In English?
@DOE John There are interviews and video's on here where he admits it such as this oneua-cam.com/video/07LgTI6DZgU/v-deo.html
DOE John ... Ray was being interviewed in UK 🇬🇧 when I saw him admit that the 2nd Hearns decision was BS
It was a very close fight. Leornard told Hearnes that he thought Tommy won, but this isn't close to one of the worst decisions in fight history. Remember Hearns was more or less saved by the bell in this fight.
Love Sugar Ray but Hearns won this hands down. He had such a long reach and speed
If Hearns had a better chin he would have had a solid argument for best of all time. Still, he made up for his chin with great boxing skills and heart. This was probably his most courageous performance.
Reub : Larry Merchant was right. If Hearns has known how to grab Leonard in the first fight he might have won that one, too. Idk...Hearns had to grow into his body, too.
Hearns was just a bad matchup for SRL, as was Wilfred Benitez, the latter of whom SRL beat but denied a rematch.
As for Norris and Camacho, SRL n his prime would have beat the sh*t out of both.
Hearns looked good early, but Hearns couldn't finish Ray. Even with the knock down Ray was only on his knees & hopped right back up. Hearns fought a good fight, but Ray beat his ass in the 12th round. Hearns conditioning didn't look good in 11 certainly not in 12. Hearns was laying on Ray the whole round he didn't have any legs either. Hearns had reach & power but Ray had power & accuracy. Hearns could not finish Ray off.
Never was a fan of Leonard he lost to Hagler and he got his ass handed to him this fight!! Judges are a joke in boxing!!
Agenteoo7
Two great fighters and two great fights
Graham Pick , one great fighter and some guy named ray
We use to have boxing!!! I remember house parties, and everyone enjoying real fights.. gone are the days, thanks for the memories 🙂 😔
Underrated fight,rarely gets mentioned when people talk of great fights but I think it was
Heard was robbed..
Boxing is corrupt. Then and now
Tyson got screwed too on both Holyfield fights with Holyfield's dirty headbutting tactics. The boxing commission, the ref and judges also let Holyfield get away with it.
thespaceram2 Tyson would always throw elbows and hit after the bell he just couldn’t handle someone else using dirty tactics on him
@@tonya1425 you are exaggerating. He doesn't always throw elbows.
thespaceram2 He would always throw elbows when he was in the clinch and hit after the bell
@@tonya1425 well I haven't heard it from other fighters complaining about Tyson's elbowing but I heard fighters complaining about Holyfield's headbutting.
I saw this fight back in the day and after all these years I still say the hitman was robbed.. And sugar ray was one of my fav's.
Even sugar ray Agrees with you
Ray had some moments, won some rounds. But Hearns won this fight. Hands down!
Hey, I was a Leonard fan and I KNEW Hearns had WON!!
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Ray Gabrelcik , The knockdowns of Leonard were not clean. I would not give him two point rounds for that.
Ray had Hearns in trouble several times . The only difference is he held Ray to avoid going down.
I saw it as an even fight.
Mark Sheppard you saw it wrong...even without the 10-8 rounds which at least one of them should be you can’t give Leonard more than 5 rounds
I agree word 4 word
Leonard him self said that Hearns won
Those were the days my friend. Best boxing Era.
Warriors , that was the greatest boxing era
The Cobra got robbed in this one. Not taking anything away from Ray.
Not sure what the judges were seeing. The 2 knockdowns was enough
Estas ciego, no sabes de boxeo
@@GUIGOU2013 en su opinion.
Hearns definitely won this fight but I will say this. Hearns late rd conditioning was always a question. If this fight was 15rds Leonard may have KO'd Hearns.
I don't think it's so much his conditiong. I think it's simply being so tall and gangly he loses more coordination as he tries then his more stocky opponents.
If it were 15 rounds? What's the point of that?
Its 12 rounds, that's all you need to know.
Huh! Keep on dreaming of 15! I'll dream of 5 & 11.
Damon Richardson I may have won the Powerball if I had the winning numbers. The last part of your comment is completely irrelevant
@@Ijustinsultedyou Is it as irrelevant as conveniently forgeting Leonard had previousky knocked out Hearns in a 15 round fight?
🥊 Hitman is a legend 🥊
A worthy fight, the best of the best these two (ll), still watching 👀 and thanks for sharing the clips @JimmyPrice 04/18/2020.
Hearns won...got robbed.
Leonard best shots were when referee broke up clinches.
Yeah, that was pretty blatant. He often threw a cheap shot after the bell rang, too.
Doug Rowbury Good. Good
Wonder why no point deductions
@@Grizzlybear1914 Because Leonard was the golden boy.
Sugar Ray lost this Fight as well as the Hagler match
I watched this bout. Tommy won this despite what the visually impaired judges thought. Later SRL admitted Tommy won that fight.
Leonard was & still is the media child of boxing, nuff said.thank God Haggler never gave him a rematch.like Mayweather, hes a buisnessman& he knows how to work the cameras, the media, etc.i just hate cause its a racket basically.
Hearns was robbed in the. Rematch, he had Leonard down twice in the. Fith round & in the Eleventh round, Hearns was controlled the fight by a. Mile it's all down to bad. Judging Leonard & Hearns are Two boxing legends. 🥊👊
Hearns was robbed, Ray Leonard admitted in a interview some years later...
No doubt, Abraham! Hearns - my FAVORITE boxer. He was thee ONLY one at the time (late 80's) to be a champion in 3 different weight-classes. Welter, Middle and Light-heavyweight! Leonard will always be the man in his own right, but Hearns was the reason Leonard the first time.
*retired* the first time..
Not only Hearns, but HAGLER was also SHAMEFULLY ROBBED.
Source and link pls or it's just a rumor.
leonard NEVER admitted defeat! thats laughable. i dont like leonard but he won the fight. hearns wouldnt have made it through a 15th round if it was one
Growing up in Detroit during this era, I was always a huge Hearns fan. Both these guys were expert marksmen with their fists & deserve a lot of respect. I'll leave it at that
Golden age of boxing 🥊
Jim Lampley knew it. So did the crowd. The Hitman was robbed.
Ray always my fav but Tommy took this one and being the gentleman he has always been he took the decision like the champ he truly was. Even when he broke his hand during the Haggler fight he kept silent to let Marvin have his moment. True warrior and champ. Just wish he had taken care of his finances better.
Leonard lost to Hagler too. Judges were clearly biased in his favor.
Nope,he may have list but, people love hating sugar ray, look at the heart in this fight, knocked down twice and still would have knocked him out next round
Non pour moi qui me suis levé tôt pour regarder the super fight ,il y avait match nul .
Combat de toute beauté entre ses deux boxeurs de légendes Hagler et Sugar Ray.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Winner against Hearns !
All simply❤❤❤❤❤
Hearst n'avait pas de physique par rapport aux autres boxeurs
Leonard beat Hagler with the judges help. After that Hagler retired disgusted by the decision.
Two of the greatest warriors of our generation.
Hearns won this fight no doubt. Sugar Ray even admitted it in the program Undisputed.
Send link to him admitting it.
This was a 12 round fight, two 10-8 rounds is 4 rounds in the bank. Now we have 8 rounds, who's saying sugar won 6 rounds to two Hearns winning 2 round which makes this a draw.
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Look for the link, use your computer ask Alexa she'll bring it to you. Just ask.
Copper Aboriginies well when I do BITCH BETTER HAVE MY MONEY!
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17:20.
If Thomas Hearns got knocked down two times in this fight, l bet he would have lost.😀😀
FACTS!!!!!
He would have without a doubt
Exactly, Sugar Ray would've had to been dead to lose a decision.
This fight is 12 rounds
Two rounds are 10-8 that's a total of 4 rounds in the bank for Hearns, now there's 8 rounds of fighting left. Out of those 8 rounds someone is saying on the score cards Sugar wins 6 rounds to Hearns winning two rounds out of 8 rounds which made this a draw. Bullshit
Lol exactly
Holy shit that was a fight! No wonder these two are legendary in the sport.
Robbery and leonard was my favorite fighter at this time
I heard Leonard interviewed where he said that "Tommy knocked me down twice" & Hearns won the fight for that reason.
I remember this fight!..
When boxing was an art
WHEN BOXING WAS REAL!!!!
I'm sure you've heard it before...
"Sugar Ray Leonard was not gonna lose a decision in Las Vegas!"
Oh those insider gamblers and the mob mafia
Same as Floyd
Leonard, the mafia “darling,” lost this fight AND the Hagler fight - disgusting……………
Gracias a Dios por haber podido ver a estos dos campeones
There was just something about score card judges and Leonard. Always seemed to go his way. By accident, I think not. PS... Hagler won his fight too.
Leonard beat Hagler fair and square. Gave him a boxing lesson.
He drubbed that bald head back and forth like a punching bag
@@asmuklerget some glasses.
First fight ok , but Hit man Hearns won this fight .
I remember watching this fight. I scored it 7-5 Tommy.
I have watched boxing since 1970, and in the new 12 rounds games a 7-5 could easily be 6-6 or 5-7 in the eyes of different judges have different ways to see the score by different ways to understand a fight.
By numbers it was 114 to 112 or 113 to 110, by rounds it was 6 Hearns 5 Leonard 1 tie or even 5 to 4 with 3 tie rounds. I despise Leonard but he didn't get blown out in this fight. Hearns was the winner but did not dominate. Also 2 knockdowns doesn't automatically give someone a victory in a closely contested fight such as this. Just like the Hagler fight, Leonard fought inspired and had more energy but Marvelous still did enough to win by a point or 2 ,however in Vegas we know who gets the benefit of the doubt.
@@merveilmeok2416 I definitely agree. These 12 rounders make it harder than 15 rounds. Smaller body of work equals larger controversy. Lol
eac 123 with two 10-8 rounds Tommy wins that fight.
@@mikefields2243 Maybe he should have but didn't Hearns take alot of shots and the bell saved him it was a 10 -8 round for Leonard. If this fight was not in Vegas it was a sure Hearns win. Any fight in Vegas makes me cringe. I agree that Hearns won but he didn't dominate and as I said previously 2 knockdowns doesn't guarantee a win especially in a close fight.
These 2 Legends deserve a statue after the last 2 rounds
Beautiful fight ! 2 greats boxers
Hitman won that. 2 knock downs plus equal punches landed. Ray only landed 10 more which probably happened in the last round. Politics
Probably thos were the ones he throw after the bell.
Admiro a ambos boxeadores, especialmente a Leonard...Pero gano Tommy Hearns señores!
Así quedó uno y uno, la primera fue para el Sugar y la segunda para la Cobra de Detroit
Con Hagler ocurrió lo mismo, le robaron la pelea. Seguramente, por una cuestion de negocios turbios, Leonard habrá tenido el respaldo de la mafia para haber sido favorecido de esta manera tan descarada
Leonart genio .
Hearns imbencible en ese momento .
No eran de la misma categoria (peso)
This was a classic and a great fight like the first Leonard-Hearns fight, two all time great fighters going at it. This is when boxing was great. You didn't see Sugar, Hearns, Haglar, Duran ducking each other, they all got W's and took some L's. They didn't avoid fighting each other trying to maintain perfect boxing records, these cats had heart.
Back in the days when the best fought the best. It wasn't until the 2000s when I first heard the term 'Cherry Picking'
This is on of the best fightive seen in a long time I can watch this over and over again
Hearns definitely got Robbed.
@Erik Murray Hearns won the fight. He didn't get robbed. They were both has beens by this time. The first fight they had back in the day was a dog fight with Leonard winning by TKO! I don't feel that Leonard didn't deserve the Hagler fight. Hagler did absolutely nothing to Leonard.
My bad Erik! He did get robbed. A draw??? No way!
The judges should be embarressed.
Hearns got robbed.Knocked Leonard down twice in the fight. Won more than 1/2 the rounds. How is this match a draw? Horrendous judging!!
Hearns is a bitch, grabbing Leonard all the time
@@anasbourqqia6306: AND Leonard was a bitch, punching on the break, punching after the bell rang--again and again and again.
Ray Shugar Leonard, el mas grande boxeador, con una habilidad y técnica increíbles, no era el mismo de los 80, pero demostró aquí su capacidad.
Dos gigantes, dos leyendas. Que Dios los bendiga siempre.
This is the real boxing.
Hearns won that fight. Ripped off tho.
bullshit
What Hearns did in the 10:19 min was typical of Monzon, after using the left jab he left the glove on the opponent's face so that he could not see the arrival of the devastating blow from the right, beautiful combination
Love sugar Ray . No chance in hell Tommy didnt win that fight. Crowd knew it. Ray knew it as well.
SRL would have a very different legacy without judges carrying him vs Hagler & Hearns.
Hearns got robbed
So did Marvin Hagler.
@@madman2028 NO, Hagler has only himself to blame for that. He gave that fight to Leonard.
They did Tommy dirty af not once but twice!!!!!
Vi todo el resumen pero el final no se quien gano me podrian decir
It’s about merchandising.... Sugar Ray Leonard the breakfast cereal, Sugar Ray Leonard the lunchpail, Sugar Ray Leonard the flamethrower...
The hitman clearly won this fight, its just that leonard was so overrated and tommy was very underrated fighter....hearns was clearly a legend period.
Leonard wasn’t overrated at all, and Hearns wasn’t underrated. The problem was that Hearns was great offensively but poor defensively.
So, while he would score lots of points, he was also an easy target to hit. It is very difficult to score a fighter like Hearns. That’s why he lost the fight.
Hearns threw and landed the harder shots, but at times, Leonard seemed to out-land him.
@@DeCurtaRican Bullshit!!!!!! Hearns clearly won this fight. Also, Ray is overrated. This fight and the Hagler fight he got lucky. Also, he was losing the first fight against hearns but cos of his China chin, he lost. Idgaf what the scorecards say about this fight, Hearns should've won this fight.
Tommy shouldn't lose that fight. Blind judges
Add this to the Hagler beat Leonard debate!
Two of the greatest pound for pound punchers in the world
Sugar deserves massive respect for acknowledging that Tommy won this fight. He said Tommy won by "a point or two", and I fully agree with him. This was actually a very close fight, with Sugar winning more individual rounds. The 2nd knockdown was what won the fight for Tommy. Both men are true legends of the sport, and are amongst the greatest boxers to ever live, that's one thing that's beyond dispute.
Hearns won clearly, everybody saw that clearly. The point is that a lot of people see Leonard as the "MISS UNIVERSE" of Don King and don`t wanna put their feet on earth!!!!!!!!!!!
I always remember my uncle telling me when I was a kid, the only way Leonard would ever lose would be by KO. If he was left standing at the end of the fight and it went to the cards, he would win every time. This was told to me at the beginning of the Hagler fight. We all see how that turned out.
That didn't happen in the Duran fight, it went to the cards, Duran won thankfuly.
What a war. This fight says everything about each of these two warriors, champions to the very end. Seems like Sugar might have gotten away with one there, he got knocked down a few times which should have given Thomas the advantage. But, you hate to see either man loose a fight like this. Thank Thomas Hearns and Sugar Ray for the amazing memories...
But then, two near-knockouts by Leonard for a couple of full round dominations.
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On the other hand, Sugar got two near-knockouts
Hearns dominated the first half of the 12th, but one judge took the fight from Hearns by scoring it 10-8 Leonard ...a 10-8 round with no knockdown has to be total domination...clearly, the other two judges got it right with 10-9's
Naw. Hearns didn't do any damage in that round 12. But Leonard did
Leonard was the media darling, could do no wrong. Shameless. This is why boxing slowly became crap
I am from Brazil!!!
Sugar Ray Leonard,era o mais estilista de todos os boxeadores!!!
Sugar Ray Leonard,Thomas Harns,Roberto"Mano de Piedra"Duran,greats!!!!
They were older at this point and it was still a good fight
Two times Leonard go down..... Thomas Won this figth
But then again, in this fight Thomas was TWICE pounded on the ropes and put near knock-out.
halcondelared. how many rounds did Leonard beat hearns all over the ring he could barely hang on.
Everyone is missing the point I like both these fighters but I would rather watch them playing with their grandkids then a fight where their skills have declined then watching a fight with two great fighter past their prime
It takes a knock out to beat the man winning with points and sugar had more points
Close fight, but Leonard has one hell of a chin and one hell of a tank. He finished all over the top of Hearns and did enough. He also threw more punches and landed more punches. Leonard's fight.
Este par de peleadores harian pedasoz al canelo boxeadores de verdad gran tecnica y golpeo y nunca les inventaron un titulo ni les pusieron bultos ni mucho menos les compraron peleas para hacerrles una historia de grandeza falsa que no le dara pena al canelo
Otro nivel son estos boxeadores, cualquiera de ellos matan al canelo. Durán, Hagler, Benítez, Pipino Cuevas.... que salte algún mexicano para debatir lo que afirmo.
Canelo el campeón de los anabólicos y esteroides es más grande Ruiz que Canelo
al canelo a floyd a todos, estos muchachos son una maravilla peliando...
Guerreros de pura raza 💪💪
Pura alma corazón y huevos!
Hearns clearly won the fight, but Leonard missed the opportunity to put him away in the 12th. Back when boxing was a gladiator sport.
Drinking beer with my best friend and his Dad and we had a great time
I liked Hearns fighting style his jab is the best in the business.
A travesty in boxing that the judges stole that fight from Hearns all because SRL was the media darling 🤦🏻♂️
Very true but it happens in sports all the time. Look at the rigged "holding" call against the Eagles in the Super Bowl all because the NFL wants to promote Mahomes as the new IT quarterback.
I remember this fight I was pissed at 13 years old hitman got robbed with no gun
I was the same age and i was pissed...Hitman Won
Both of you are correct, robbed without a gun. I know Hearns personally, we both trained under Emanuel Stewart R.I.P., we both as many were amateur fighters at that time in 72, he was special then very talented fighter in Detroit's Kronk Gym on the westside.
Absolutely Hagler won that fight!
I think:this Is the best fight of Hearns!
Two warriors. Respect.
Paul from England.
When you see a reff stopping the count and watching constantly over his shoulder to see if the boxer is on the neutral corner, you can really tell this was fixed and Leonard had to be saved.......on each count the reff gives him 3 or 4 extra seconds.........not to mention Leonard should have had at least 2 times a point deduction for punching Hearns way after the bell.
Lol you serious mate? Hearns punched ray after the bell multiple times in their first fight, grow up your bias is showing.
@@jacobsaunders1092 Ok, then lets invent new rules
@@nicolashrv if your gonna penalise one fighter you have to penalise the other if he commits the same infraction, even in this fight Hearns hit ray late but you chose only to wish to penalise ray?? I'm glad your not reffing this match mate
@@jacobsaunders1092 dude, just use your brain. I don't care what the other ref did. IN THIS FIGHT, THIS REF was protecting Leonard. I don't care if Dempsey took 14 seconds and got help to get back in the ring against Firpo. That doesn't mean after that all refs should do what the fuck they want.
@@nicolashrv dude rewatch this fight, hearns hit ray after the bell as well l, as I stated previously