Confirm/Deny: Hagler-Hearns is overrated.

It takes balls to ask that question....it takes bigger ones to say yes...

It was a great fight but not fight of the century

 

I think it is in a sense, as I don't rank it especially high on my all-time list of great fights, but I am also too young to have watched it live as I wasn't into boxing at five years old. A lot of the people who rank it so highly saw it as it happened, lived through all the build-up, so there was the unpredictablity of it and not knowing what would happen.

 

Perhaps the best 'short' fight in history IMO. Only question for mine is how you go about accurately comparing their 8 minute war to a history full of 45 minute epics that went the distance.

By any measure a fight that few, if any, will ever forget.

 

Deny! Hagler wasa huge favourite and everybody pretty much expected a cagey Hearns to box off the back foot. The shock when he stepped forward and clattered Hagler was immense. Then Hagler got a pretty bad cut and it was looking very tasty indeed. Hagler then stepped it up to another championship gear and the fight was over. I think it rightly deserves it place in folklore. Give me 3 rounds of two warriors stepping up to the plate rahter than a Klitschko snorefest any day of the week.

 

I don't think it's overrated, it's just that anything is bound to get overrated in a sense when it becomes such a massive part of a folklore. I am very very glad to say that when i first saw this fight i hadn't actually read about how good it was, i still remember that. Great surprise that was.

 

The problem is two fold, the fight has become cliche, a throw away line to brilliance.

And some of the fancy of this era do not remember the fight.

Think of it like this, I watched Citizen Kane with the old man and he was wanking from scene one. What I did not realize was in scene one, when they show the mansion and the camera draws into the front entrance, it was the first time that, that had ever been done.

Hagler/Hearns is so great because despite having a hundred plus years of boxing history behind it, the fight got to unseen levels.

You never did see 160lbers throwing near a hundred punches a round. When Hearns landed that right; mocking, not realizing, or what; Hagler did seem to hit a new intensity.

And whether he said the classic line to the Steele Can you see? (Hagler is alleged to of said: Well I ain't missing him!), he acted like he did.

 

Confirm. Great fight, great first-round, but a little too one-sided to be one of the best fights ever. Was it just me or was the result never in doubt past a certain point in the first round?

 

Confirm. Great 90 seconds/ 2 minutes but then a walk down job for Hagler with a little added tension because of the cut.

 

This.

 

I am still in awe of it to this day and remember it well. Was really saddened when the hitman lost,especially in only the third round,but skills were thrown out the window!! And with its intensity,someone was going to be stopped soon,it was'nt Rocky,it was reality. I think in a rematch Hearns would have fought a much more diciplined fight,and it would have been more competative,minus the broken hand,legs whatever,unlike after the first round in THE FIGHT itself. But regardless,Hagler was a beast that night!!Unbeatable!! Sure wish the rematch did happen.

 

I remember the whole thing. The intesity of the build up. Tommy Hearns determined to knock Haglar out. Haglar clearly thinking "no you won't." Finally, after an intense pre fight build up, it's fight night! Two of the best fighters in a great era stare each other down with malicious intentions, the bell rings and all hell breaks lose. Much to the surprise of many, for a brief time, it looks like Marvin could be in trouble. He's badly cut, and getting rocked. Then, disaster strikes; Tommy breaks his hand on that rock Marvin called a head! Tommy saying; "That was WAR. When we gonna do it again?" after the fight.

Hell no it ain't over rated!!!

 

I think Hearns/Hagler is an overrated slugfest.

Some even rank it above Arguello/Pryor 1. :admin