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...VEGAS, Nev.--Marvelous Marvin Hagler knocked down Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns and stopped him at 2:01 of the third round of a savage fight for Hagler's undisputed middleweight title Monday night...
...bumperstickers and shirts. Last month, Yale corporation member Eleanor Holmes Norton came to speak at Boston College and had to avoid hundreds of Yale workers and sympathizers, including Harvard food service workers and secretaries protesting her appearance. Leading the activists in a candlelight vigil was the Reverend Graylan Ellis-Hagler...
...became the most notorious phrase in any language. Roberto lost two subsequent fights, but then knocked out former Welterweight Champion Pipino Cuevas to get a chance at Davey Moore's junior middleweight title. When he stopped Moore in June, Duran had come back virtually to Leonard, actually to Hagler...
Leonard's retirement last year was prompted by a detached retina he suffered in training, but dread of Hagler was thought to be at least a secondary consideration. A Hagler sampler: "Don't play with them, bust them up." No one could blame Hagler for the shortage of competition leading up to and during his three championship years, but the fact remained that Duran, such as he was, represented Hagler's first eminent opponent and premium payday (possibly $10 million apiece). For a change, people feared for Duran's safety. Recalling "No más," even...
...more a prologue to a fight than a fight. Giving away three years (32 to 29), 1 lb. (156½ to 157½), 2 in. in height (5 ft. 7½ in. to 5 ft. 9½ in.) and 8 in. in reach, Duran clearly meant to box Hagler, who began timidly. "I was a little tight," the champion said. "I tried not to give him too much respect. But he was very clever." Dipping and dodging, Duran forced him to miss, and counterpunched through the second and third rounds. But the fourth was better for Hagler, and come...