Which Fabulous 4 member had the greatest victory?

on paper it was probably Leonard over Hagler, but in reality it was Leonard over Hearns in my opinion (first fight).

 

Damn dude. A bump and your thread hasn't even been up an hour.

 

We had a long thread about this and the overwhelming consensus was Leonard vs Kalule and Hagler vs Sibson.

 

The Duran KO against Hagler was ****ing brutal

 

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Duran who had been under the sun for far too long knocking out a prime Hagler

 

Duran beating Leonard is one of the finest wins of all time, if not the finest win of all time. A smaller champion lights up a larger, budding legend in his prime, wading in with no fear and delivering a not insubstantial beating. Just legendary stuff.

After that, the list read's Sugar Ray Leonard. His triumphant upset of Marvin Hagler after a long layoff, his come from behind stoppage of Tommy Hearns, his return boxing lesson that made Duran quit. Take your pick, I don't care the order, these are 2,3, and 4. The rest, all great wins, but not on the level of these, and Leonard's final victory of Duran was a symbolic statement, but not relevant to boxing's pecking order at the time it was fought.

 

I think I agree with this order. But the one thing that gets lost with time and hindsight is how little chance Leonard was given against Hagler.

 

Leonard coming out of retirement, looking old, outboxing Hagler is the best win, no other fab 4 members could do it.

 

I think the fact Leonard beat Hagler was the most remarkable of them all.

All things considered i can see why Duran beating Leonard is the greatest though.It really wasn't that close through 12 and Duran laid off the gas after that.Leonard never had the initiative for more than a couple of rounds circa 5,6 where it seemed he might be able to use his range and handspeed to turn things around.

 

Leonard was an underdog against Thomas Hearns in '81 as well, though by a lesser margin. It doesn't really get anymore dangerous throughout the history of the division than what he was up against there. Other than Kalule at 154, and he beat him too!

 

Duran was getting so arrogant, he did absolutely nothing in the last round

Taunting Leonard and dodging almost everything.