Leonard beat Hagler was one of the biggest upsets in the history of boxing.

Regardless of your score, there's no way SRL beating anyone is one of boxing's biggest upsets.

 

not that big really, just an upset. SRL was too good to rule out of H2H with anyone up to MW.

 

Not that big really? Are you kidding me? It was huge.

 

A beatdown by hagler was certainly not expected , which is what a huge upset would have predicted (without the upset occurring). Leonard was surely expected to go the distance with his chin - I tohught he would go for a survival loss before the fight. ANd he did fight to survive, only way to go with Hagler, but Ray added a lot more.

i'd not have written off SRL, what made it impressive was he was coming out of retirement post eye injury. But I tihnk they bigged that up at the time - he had remained active and fit in his time out, and the victory was arguable either way.

 

Hagler won, running a marathon and stopping to shoe shine for a few second burst once a minute should not win you a fight. Boxing scoring fight to fight is so inconsistent, DLH did the same thing as Leonard for the last 3 rounds against Trinidad and it loses him a fight he should have won. But Leonard doing it for 12 rounds wins it for him, ridiculous, Hagler won that ****.

 

Ward v Kovalev

 

Never forget this fight,massive build up & great fight,had the fans split who would win.

 

sid i recall the buildup, the hype, the endless playing of Europes "The final countdown" in the adverts to this day. I even had the tshirt, or that might have been hagler hearns cant remember now.

in a way that fight desensitised me to boxing for a while since nothing came close to that hype, I had to reacclimatise for benn/watson/eubank.

 

Amazing fight,as said the hype was huge fans are still split to this day who won.

 

Shamefully I've not seen this fight in a very very long time. I didn't score it, but my impression was that SRL edged it based on pure skill and counter combos. I'm gonna have to watch this again now.

 

This^

 

A family member of mine who like myself was a fan of Leonard won a fair bit on personal bets he had made with others predicting Leonard would win

 

Nice one.

Yeah, I went and had a little search around after I read this thread and I found a couple of places saying similar.

(British odds fractions)

Hagler was apparently 1/4 on fight night.

I read Leonard opened up at 6/1 and was 3/1 on fight night.

 

Hagler did NOT win this fight. Leonard CLEARLY won it.

Outboxed, outlanded, outgeneral'd.

What's with the crybabies with the revisionist history?

The final CompuBox stats showed Leonard landing 306 of 629 total punches (49%-52 per round) to 291 of 792 (37%-66 per round) for Hagler . Leonard landed 258 of 490 power punches (53%) to 213 of 581 (37%) for Hagler.

 

Terry Norris beating Leonard was probably the bigger upset actually.