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...once again." This was a reference to his only other defeat in 42 matches, 14 fierce rounds against Leonard in 1981. Whatever was removed from him in that fight, more was taken out in this. "It hurts. That's another one staring me in the face." But he praised Hagler--"The man showed his greatness"--and held out hope for himself at 26. "This is not the end for me. I'm a winner." In a glut of divisions, he yet holds a superwelterweight title--"nothing to cry over," as Hagler said, though not much occasion for joy. The contemporary...
...bubble-eyed but eschewing dark glasses, Hagler shrugged, "I'm used to bumps and bruises. I love a good fight." His daughter Charelle, 3, observed, "Daddy, you got a boo-boo, huh?" He laughed at that. "She's so honest." So is he, brutally. "Tommy was very cocky, and I had something for him. This is what you call a sweet victory. I wanted to do it better than Leonard. Tommy predicted the third round: that was the prize. I done did what I had to do. I'm not a politician. I'm a fighter." The next morning, touching...
...their second round, Hagler pressed the advantage of his deeper strength and resolve against Hearns' greater height and reach until Tommy teetered simply from lack of leverage. Trying to lean far enough away from Hagler to hook him, Hearns sent himself sprawling a couple of times. Hagler punched and pushed him to the ropes. During the final training, Hearns had displayed himself in a casino ballroom complete with aerobic girls, while Hagler locked the door at Johnny Tocco's downtown gym. "I wanted to be able to smell a gymnasium," he explained, "to get back to what got me where...
Before it was over for Hearns, it was almost ended for Hagler. When Referee Richard Steele paused to have the ringside physician re-examine the champion's wound, a bolt of fear struck the Petronelli brothers in Hagler's corner. But the doctor's brisk finding was that Marvin could see all right, and Goody Petronelli felt a strange sensation of calm. He and Pat first encountered Hagler when he walked softly into their gym in Brockton, Mass., as a 16-year-old, a child of Newark who happened to find himself living in Rocky Marciano's home town. They...
Technically, it was not a knockout. In a daze, Hearns had blithely walked away from a line of right hands that double-crossed him and smashed him to the ground. At Steele's count of "nine," Hearns was approximately erect, but the referee had a grace of sense. As Hagler was hoisted on a number of shoulders, Hearns was carried across the ring like a bride across the threshold by one grim man in formal dress with a boutonniere in his lapel. It was a relief to see Hearns walking even unsteadily later, though he bore scarcely a recognizable resemblance...