Ana;yzing leonard-hearns 1

[redrooster]

my main problem with this performance was why did ray go flat for so long after having his man hurt in the middle rounds.

With a little mobility and a consistent jab, tommy reduced ray from sweet to ordinary and I assume that most others with same plan could carry it out like Terry Norris. he lost too many of the rounds-Not the mark of an all time great.

Sugar hardly resembled Marciano trying to make his way inside so as a strategist i gave him low marks. the most impressive part of his game was his barrages in rds 6,7, 13.

[Vantage_West]

he was scared but not in a cowardly way he just hadnt fought a man like that before...
he was a jabber and was almost always taller than the other man...he jabbed his way in and relased his combo's and would either finish them off or just go the distance.
with the hearns fight hearns just jabbed and barged him away and was aggresive towards him leonard with his smaller frame andreach could only pot shot.

this was a learning curb leonard turned from being a boxer to a fighter in this fight. he changed his whole stratagy and went right hand crazy when he saw an opening.

i feel hearns was ok to continue he said that he was fine if he was warned that the fight might of stopped then hearns would maybe of won the fight by dancing away

[Titan1]

Ray probably tired himself out a little, overexerted himself.By right, he should've had Tommy out in the sixth or seventh, but it didn't happen that way.

[Popkins]

I agree that this is not a strong all-round performance from Leonard. His languid, lethargic showing in some rounds is positively bizarre.

[My2Sense]

With a little mobility and a consistent jab, tommy reduced ray from sweet to ordinary and I assume that most others with same plan could carry it out like Terry Norris.

Yeah, it's not like Hearns was a unique ATG with freakish physical advantages and tremendous power or anything...


he lost too many of the rounds-Not the mark of an all time great.


Since when??

[Boxed Ears]

I don't know, maybe I'm quirky but I give him high marks for beating a monstrous freak of nature ATG into submission somewhere towards the end there.

[JohnThomas1]

Yeah, it's not like Hearns was a unique ATG with freakish physical advantages and tremendous power or anything...


Exactly, some just don't have any clue when it comes to the tactical nuances and ebbs and flows of this one.

[JohnThomas1]

I don't know, maybe I'm quirky but I give him high marks for beating a monstrous freak of nature ATG into submission somewhere towards the end there.

Maybe you know what you're looking at too :good

[MrMarvel]

Hearn's superior skill shut down Leonard's offense. He got lucky in the sixth and still couldn't close the show. Had Hearns not given out Leonard would have suffered his second humiliating defeat.

[Gesta]

Great win by Leonard.

Showed guts in a the ring with another ATG, did not look the best, was losing, but came through with the KO and that is what counts.