SCOOTRD. Those were great fights. Tommy Hearns was a great boxer who happened to be fighting at the wrong time. Hagler was another favorite of mine. I never liked hot dogs or show offs so I reckon thats why I never was much of a Leonard fan. I can't afford cable so I rarely get to see a boxing match anymore, I miss it. POWDERMAN.
We grew up on boxing in our house. My grandfather went 18-0 in the military before he was discharged. My father was an inner city Boston Kid always getting into street scraps until they said what are we gonna do with this kid to straighten him out , so they enrolled him in local boxing clubs. when I was little , My father saw me following in some of his bad adolescent footprints so to keep me out of trouble enrolled me in YMCA boxing programs for after school kids.
If there was a fight on TV , all the boys and men in the family would be gathered round the TV set in living room watching , while aunts, grandmothers, and moms visited in the kitchen. Always had a smell of make your own sandwich stuff , coffee , cookies, cake, or Pie and Ice cream (my grandmother enjoyed baking) in the house on fight nights.
Man I miss fight nights (and my grandmothers desserts)!!!