The Hagler vs Hearns fight is overrated

[cuzfozzy]

yeah that was a wicked fight but pac vs hatton will be even better
whoever wins its going to be full of knockdowns and excitement
as long as it lasts

[BattlingNelson]

The suspense factor changes a lot of things. Hearns's legs went spaghetti late in round 1. His legs were rubbery the rest of the way, and Hagler took over. The cut provided a bigger danger for Hagler to lose than Hearns at that point, who was getting tagged with some consistency.

But this is after watching it a couple times and analyzing.

I didn't see it live, but those that did, I'm sure some viewers saw what was happening and that Hagler was taking over. But others could've thought "Hearns was getting the **** kicked out of him by Leonard in the 7th and later won the 9th thru the 12th, maybe he can do the same here....maybe he'll open that cut even more".

Not knowing the results changes the excitement level SSOOO much.

Even a fight like Mayweather-DLH, which is ridiculed all the time for its lack of excitement, didn't bore me when it happened, and I wasn't disapointed. Of course I had very low expectations of it so that helped, and I was drunk. But there was the suspense factor of a pretty competitive fight, so when I saw it, I was adequately entertained and intrigued. Now the replay factor.....that's a different story.

Same for Quartey-De La Hoya. 10 rounds of that fight was pretty ****ty, but it was different when I watched it live, not knowing what would happen.

It takes a truly boring and crappy fight to not keep me interested when it happens live.

I watched it live, and was very exited before, during and after the fight. I was rooting hard for the hitman and felt great after that first round. After that my feeling was in a downward spiral as Hearns kept on trembling over Hagler's southpaw feet. After that first round it became quite clear quick that Hagler would win by KO as Tommy seemed to have lost some zip in that brutal first round.

That was my impression.

[theghost#1]

Im tired of hearing "will this be another hagler-hearns" "people are comparing this fight to hagler-hearns". Hey yea thanks for that helluva first round. But the tired fellas only gave us 2 more decent rounds. Ive seen much better fights that lasted more than 3 rounds to hype fights up with, but classics(old ****) plays into peoples minds i guess.

Castillo-corrales was much better as well as Ward-Gatti

[Thread Stealer]

IMHO Hagler-Hearns is the BEST THREE ROUND FIGHT OF ALL TIME...

Here's a go at it, although I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

1 round fight: Mancini-Frias
2 rounds: Dempsey-Firpo?
3 rounds: Hagler-Hearns
4 rounds: Ramirez-Rosario 2
5 rounds: Lee-Locicero, Foreman-Lyle, Moorer-Cooper. This is a tough one.
6 rounds: Vazquez-Marquez 2
7 rounds: Carbajal-Gonzalez 1
8 rounds:
9 rounds: B. Curry-Brooks
10 rounds: Corrales-Castillo 1
11 rounds: Moore-Durelle 1
12 rounds: Franklin (Saad)-M. Johnson 1
13 rounds: Marciano-Walcott 1
14 rounds: Ali-Frazier 3
15 rounds: Ali-Frazier 1, or Chacon-Limon 4.

[Ishy Aytan]

I'd take Leonard-Hearns over Hagler-Hearns any day.

[TheGreatA]

I've heard that every fight ever is overrated. Castillo-Corrales I was overrated, Carbajal-Gonzales was overrated, Hearns-Leonard was overrated, Gatti-Ward trilogy was overrated, etc.

I guess it has a lot to do with what kind of action you want to see. One thing that made Hagler-Hearns great is that the fight was hyped as a war between two great fighters and it lived up to it. A lot of times this doesn't happen because great fighters rarely get into unnecessary brawls.

You could say that Hagler got into Hearns' head because there was no way Hearns could have gone out there and boxed with all the expectations that the fight had.

Great fight but I guess it gets tiring when people hype every big fight as the next "Hagler vs Hearns".

[Roger Mellie]

Im tired of hearing "will this be another hagler-hearns" "people are comparing this fight to hagler-hearns". Hey yea thanks for that helluva first round. But the tired fellas only gave us 2 more decent rounds. Ive seen much better fights that lasted more than 3 rounds to hype fights up with, but classics(old ****) plays into peoples minds i guess.

Thats crazy.Its the best fight I have ever seen.

[cuzfozzy]

Thats crazy.Its the best fight I have ever seen.

if hatton pac turns out like that there will be no loser
boxing will be the winner.

[joseph5620]

If you watch the fight objectively, you'll see that after the first half of the first round Hagler pretty much kicked Tommy's ass. Great match, but way overrated

Yep. After watching it several times I realized that only the first round was great. After that it was all Hagler. To this day, the best fight I have ever seen was Corrales-Castillo 1.

[Verstyle]

You would have had to watch it live and see all the hype to fully understand why a lot of ppl rate it high. It would be like Mayweather and Manny just going all out like they normally don't do. We'd be shocked to fu(k.