Agreed but Hearns victory over Benitez was mighty impressive, particularly given the broken right hand midway.
Absolutely, and I'd concede an argument that Benitez was better at 154 than 147, and Hearns went in with a broken hand. It's an amazing win, but I think it's inarguable that Leonard's win was more conclusive. He lost less rounds, and got a stoppage - even if it was a bad one.
8th round it went. Leonard's win was amazing, absolutely. He was on fire. On another note James Broad overate a lot per the thread topic.
In the book the four kings, Steward (I think? I don't have it in front of me) said that Hearns broke his hand in training and in the pre-fight workouts. He went in with a broken hand, and I think he worsened it in the eighth. Or at least, that's going off my memory of this book.
I think Leonard's great! He's just not in Hagler's class as a fighter. That's all we're saying If he was, he'd have a comparable win - loss record
He was exactly the same fighter that was beating up Lemieux, Willie Monroe, Dominic Wade only a year before the Jacobs fight and looking like like an unstoppable destroyer, only thing that changed is he stepped up his level of opposition, nobody ages that quick. You really think it's a coincidence that the aging excuse began at the precisely the same time GGG started fighting tier 1 and tier 2 level opposition ??? I think not.
When the Hatton v Mayweather fight was first mooted I actually thought Ricky was going to give Floyd all the trouble he could handle and even possibly beat him. By fight time I’d came to my senses and actually predicted the way the fight panned out. I was overrating Ricky big time.