A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
"You set your own goals for success, and when you succeed it don't necessarily mean that you're going to be a big star or make a lot of money or anything. You'll feel it in your heart whether you've succeeded or not." - Roy Buchanan
I actually had a poster or 2 that the Detroit Free Press printed up declaring "Hearns Wins". They were a little hastey. Might be worth some money now, if I can find it........
Direct me to some youtube vids of great MMA fights. I'd like to give it another chance.
Brian.
"You set your own goals for success, and when you succeed it don't necessarily mean that you're going to be a big star or make a lot of money or anything. You'll feel it in your heart whether you've succeeded or not." - Roy Buchanan
Hearns was one of my very favorite boxers back when he was in his prime,.."The Motor City Cobra",..
He did the same thing to Hagler that he did to every other boxer who got in the ring with him, but Hagler took it and kept moving forward.
Hearns had never had to take the kind of relentless punishment that Hagler dished out.
Hearns was a much more polished boxer, but Hagler was old school tough.
It must have been very disaheartening for Hearns to give Hagler everything he had in the first round and then see him come out for the second as fresh as he was at the beginning of the first. He must have known that he had lost the fight at that point.
To his credit, Hearns continued to stand in there with Hagler and literally fought himself to exhaustion for two more rounds.
Two outstanding fighters giving everything they have from beginning to end.
I actually boxed 3 fights at Kronk gym. Went 2-1. Tough place, let me tell you. Never saw Tommy down there, but did see Emanuel Steward.
Tommy was a frickin' legend down there, and still is.
He went on to win more belts and beat some decent fighters, but his bouts with Ray and Marvin are the ones people remember. Great fighters, all 3 of them.......
