Comments Thread For: Hagler-Hearns anniversary rekindles affection for truly great events

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By Lyle Fitzsimmons - Social media is a fun toy. But when it comes to worthwhile analysis, it frequently falls flat. Case in point. While Twitter tends to buckle under the weight of breathless 140-character missives during and after particularly violent slugfests, it often fails to recognize the litmus tests a match must pass to change the label from "titillating opening act" to "can't-miss headliner...
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[The Time]

Now this was a FIGHT!!!

Hagler-Hearns

We need more of these type fights

[daggum]

people celebrate hagler hearns anniversary but never november 4th? the anniverary of floyd-baldomir. such biased towards face first brawlers

[The plunger man]

Fisrt fight i ever watched on closed circuit television.....5am in the morning and the theatre was going mental. Never forget this fight ...amazing atmospehere and drama

[The Big Dunn]

The best part about going back and remembering these great fights is there was no internet, NSB, twitter, or other forms of social media that gave casual trolls and ****heads a chance to enter a discussion between real fans about the fight.

[chirorickyp]

This was the Hagler Sugar ducked! It was supposed to be Leonard who would have been KO'd. Hearns had the guts to face this guy.

[Kigali]

Fisrt fight i ever watched on closed circuit television.....5am in the morning and the theatre was going mental. Never forget this fight ...amazing atmospehere and drama

I thought you were 24 years old?????

[bojangles1987]

Hagler-Hearns was something else. You so rarely see two highly skilled boxers just say **** it and go to war like that. Pacquiao and Marquez kind of did the same thing, but it was still a highly skilled affair. So were Corrales-Castillo and Pryor-Arguello. Hagler-Hearns was two guys saying "**** this, we're ending it early one way or another."

I'm not saying it's the best fight of the mentioned fights here, but it's unique among them for that reason.

[The plunger man]

I thought you were 24 years old?????

Come again ?

[Kigali]

Come again ?

Didn't you claim to be 24 y/o???