Comments Thread For: Leonard-Hearns: Anniversary Still Elicits Special Memories

[MRCHOKEaMF]

The part about Mayweather is completely wrong, and Chavez Jr. walked away from Golovkin, so who cares that he called him out? Come time to take the fight, he didn't.

Do these words look familiar Bojangles?
I don't like and often hate on Floyd, I respect his ability. His worst fights are eons better than what a lot of champions are involved in. His cherry picks are at least #1 contenders and beltholders.

THESE ARE YOUR WORDS. LOL yep YOUR WORDS YOU WROTE THIS

[MRCHOKEaMF]

Do these words look familiar Bojangles?
I don't like and often hate on Floyd, I respect his ability. His worst fights are eons better than what a lot of champions are involved in. His cherry picks are at least #1 contenders and beltholders.

THESE ARE YOUR WORDS. LOL yep YOUR WORDS YOU WROTE THIS

So many hypocrites, I present Bojangles

[soul_survivor]

This fight proved two things:

1) Hearns was more than JUST a puncher

2) Leonard was the perfect example of an all round boxing magician. If he was losing a fight on points, he would and could knock you the **** out and if he was unable to do that, he would out box you all night long. Simply one of the greatest ever.

[Ham Porter]

He beats the Curry/Starling/Honeygan era fighters.

Those three are better than anyone he's ever fought at the weight, and Curry absolutely wipes his arse with Fraud.

Ward-Cleared out his division, no need for belts to acknowledge it. GGG don't want this type of drama in his life

Ward blatantly ducked the consensus number two in his division.

[richardt]

I rank him lower on WW because he didn't start there. The fab 4 except Duran and Hagler pretty much started there. As far as Oscar goes, I tink Floyd beats him at any weight, obviously tho the lower the better

Mayweather won a close decision over a past prime Oscar. A prime 147 Oscar tilts it his way. It would be one thing if Floyd won 10 of 12 rounds but he didn't and couldn't dominate a past prime Oscar.

[richardt]

Those three are better than anyone he's ever fought at the weight, and Curry absolutely wipes his arse with Fraud. Ward blatantly ducked the consensus number two in his division.

I'll say this, the Curry/Honeyghan/Starling era would have been stiff competition for Floyd.

[richardt]

Wess mentioned the golden years and yes, they sure as hell were. Leonard, Hearns, and Duran were pure electricity, each one of them. I was a kid but I could not wait to see them fight and on closed circuit TV and later on TV. Those guys were special. So was Benitez and even Cuevas in some ways cause he turned pro so young. When Leonard lost the first Duran fight, as a young one I was depressed for 2 weeks and barely left my room. I was devastated.

Leonard was like lightning, Hearns was like thunder, and Duran was maniacal, just a rabid maniac! Hearns would have this distant look at the staredowns, his eyes almost hollow but when that right hand connected, damage was done, serious damage. Leonard at staredowns looked like he was looking right through you. And Duran had those cold, chilling Charles Manson-like eyes. These guys owned the 147 pound division history, along with to a lessor extent Benitez and Cuevas. Cuevas broke turnbuckles, collar bones, jaws, ribs, etc. Benitez at his best was extremely fast and had a great defense.

I waited a long time for another Sugar Ray Leonard and the closest was Roy Jones, my 4th favorite of all time. I met Jones when I didn't even know who he was, just some guy in a mall with a Sugar Ray Leonard tee shirt when the guy next to him called him the next SRL after I told the guy (Jones) that Leonard was my all-time favorite fighter. I almost laughed when the guy said he was the next Leonard and I'm glad I didn't because I thought he might be a local fighter who I just don't know who might have skills.....and then found out his name was Roy Jones and he fighting in the 88 Olympics box-offs in my town - and he blew me away with his skills. Finally got to really meet him 10 years later.

If people could be transported back in time to see these fighters live, their jaws would drop and they would know that there has never been a greater 147 division in history. It was like watching well-oiled futuristic machines at war. They were amazing. No fighter that has ever lived would get through Leonard, Hearns, Duran, Benitez, and Cuevas without losses to at least 3 of them. Not Oscar, Mosley, Trinidad, Mayweather, Pac, Curry, Honeyghan, Starling, McCrory, Armstrong, not anyone.

[bojangles1987]

Do these words look familiar Bojangles?
I don't like and often hate on Floyd, I respect his ability. His worst fights are eons better than what a lot of champions are involved in. His cherry picks are at least #1 contenders and beltholders.

THESE ARE YOUR WORDS. LOL yep YOUR WORDS YOU WROTE THIS

Nowhere in that post do I say anything about Floyd's competition being bad. I called out someone who was incorrect about Floyd fighting #1 ranked fighters in his first fight every time he moved up.

Troll someone else.

[Pigeons]

By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Whaddya know, I almost forgot my favorite day of the year last week.

Well, OK, maybe it’s fourth behind of my birthday, my son's birthday and Christmas ?but still, it's pretty big: Sept. 16. The date when, over the course of seven years back in the 1980s, my life changed forever.

First, it was Sept. 16, 1981. Tommy Hearns. Ray Leonard. The "Showdown" at 147 pounds. Any fight fan in my age group remembers it like it was yesterday. And as I glance at the calendar and realize it's now been 33 years (last Tuesday) since it happened... I'm amazed.

It was that fight more than any other that got me revved-up. I was a gigantic Tommy fan. I was sure he'd win. I couldn't wait until the next day, when I'd go to Edward Town Junior High School and lord it over all the "Sugar Ray" fans while collecting on a bevy of lunch money bets.

A quarter here. Fifty cents there. Enough funds to keep the Pac Man machine going for hours with a belly full of ice cream sandwiches.

Ahhh... those were the days.

Needless to say, it didn't go how I wanted. Tommy is ahead, then in trouble, then ahead again, then stopped in what's still as dramatic a late rally as you'll ever see, featuring as compelling a message from trainer to fighter as has ever been delivered in any corner.

"You're blowin' it now, son. You're blowin' it."

Thinking about it gives me goose bumps even now.

Thank you, Angelo Dundee. [Click Here To Read More]

For the life of me I do not understand why you reference IWBR rankings. TBRB is the ultimate source. Are you affiliated with IWBR in some way?

[Amgwanagitbuti]

Every boxing era has been blessed with great athletes but not many can boast about having anything approaching the stellar collection of true super fights held amongst Hagler, Hearns, Leonard and Duran.

Ray's win over Tommy was simply an incredible performance by both fighters WILLING TO STEP TO THE BEST TO BE CONSIDERED THE BEST, NOT TELLING everyone about being TBE.

It's sobering to realize the state to which boxing has fallen when fans, so accustomed to crappy cards, end up forking over $60+ for a Mayweather-Maidana or Pacquiao-Algeri. I just chuckle when controlling interests tell reporters that boxing is thriving.