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Sugar Ray Leonard defeated Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns with a TKO in the 14th round. Hearns, however, was ahead on all three cards--124-122, 125-121, and 125-123--when the knockout occurred...
Quick left jabs, followed by a devastating right cross. In the middle rounds, a knockdown, then a sustained comeback capped by a flurry of punches-leading to a TKO-in the 15th round...
...even though the fight was registered as a TKO, that's not really how it ended. Ali's trainer simply told his man he'd have to fight to win, and when Ali let round after round go by without even trying, a frustrated Dundee told the referee that Ali had had enough...
...never had a stamina problem; he actually seems to get stronger in the later rounds. In the "Thrilla in Manilla" against Joe Frazier, he took a terrible beating in the middle rounds, only to pull himself together and score a 14th round TKO. Against Shavers, too, he entered the last third of the fight behind in the scoring and "went down to the well," as he says, for that extra reserve...
Other incumbent champs were not as fortunate. Marvin Johnson wrested the WBA light-heavyweight crown from Victor Galindez on an 11th round TKO, and challenger Sugar Ray Leonard copped the welterweight crown with a TKO of defender Wilfred Benitez five seconds from the end of the fight...