Thomas Hearns manages to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

Way back then, I said that Barkley would win, and called the round and the punch, and pretty much exactly how the fight went. My best friend at the time was a huge Hearns fan so, originally, it was just talking trash at work and me trying to get under his skin. But I talked myself into believing it and we argued enough about it that I had to make a case for it.

 

How Barkley survived those shots to the body in the 3rd round is beyond me. Hell of an effort by Barkley.

 

For real. I double up just watching them.

 

I remember this fight, I think it was a year or two before Operation Desert Storm...brutal fight. Barkley gave him that run back and bested him again too

 

I think about this fight and the (face rearranging) rematch a lot............I don't get it. This is just the definition of someone being someone else's poison (like Rahman/Maskaev or Winky/Shane for instance).