A tidbit on SRL...

Rooster's your man here. :good

 

If he wasn't there, his friends Pepping, Hank or Street were.



Hey, he was sparring southpaws, what's the odds Rooter claims a TKO win for the mercurial Frank "Le Animarl" Fletcher!

 

Some guy on another forum (he is a real fanatic of ray leonard) said leonard was knocked out in the sparring session which validates my claim that hagler was very far gone if he couldn't do the same.

Don't believe John Thomas. I was not there to see it happen-I've never seen Leonard fight in preson. I watched hagler in sparring that was also a couple weeks before the Leonard fight and felt Hagler shouldn't be fighting anymore but did improve somewhat vs. leonard over what i saw him doing in sparring. he looked terrible.

 

Listen up and listen good

You say Hagler struggling in sparring let you know Hagler wasn't in shape to fight Leonard yet Leonard supposedly getting ko'ed in sparring doesn't get him the same concessions

:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl

 

I heard he ALMOST got KO'd in sparring, nearly out on his feet, but was somehow able to hide the fact that he was badly hurt. I don't know who the guy was that he was sparring with though.

 

It's based on a lack of reflexes that Hagler floundered in sparring.

Leonard was knocked out in his sparring session because he didn't have a chin. That's what I've always said isn't it?

 

Whew!

I stand corrected then. I was just going by what someone else said.

But the question arises, how do you almost get knocked out and what saved him from being ko'd?

 

Ask Ali about Shavers

 

Well how did Leonard survive the biggest bombs in history at 147? How did he survive and thrive Haglers formidable power at 160? Why did KO and all the others rate his chin brilliantly?

P.S. Mom would kill me if she knew i was dishing out this whupping on some poor defenseless moron.

 

To answer your first question, Hearns was was too frail at 145 to knock out anyone except tomato cans.

Second, Hagler was no longer formidable.

And KO has always overrated Leonard since the day he won the title. I think it was a mistake putting him in the same class as Robinson just for beating Benitez.

 

You must not think much of Hearns' power at 147 then, if he couldn't even floor Leonard the first time and Hagler couldn't even hurt a retired guy who was 13 pounds lighter than him with no chin!

 

because hagler was shot. haven't i always said that?

 

Hagler was not fighting at his normal weight. That plus age

 

Leonard was working the talk shows MONTHS before he fought Hagler and said he would box him, out think him, be more skilled, scientific etc

I'm certain Leonard didn't conjure up the idea to box two weeks before facing Hagler.

Leonard didn't look like he was boxing when he would use Haglers head as a pinball - see round 9, 12 etc