Time Warner Cable has First Leonard-Hearns Fight (Channel 548/ESPN/Classic Boxing)

by Paco Rivera, GAR1680 Boxing Talk

          Time-Warner Cable has the first Leonard-Hearns fight (1981) on their On-Demand channel this month and I watched it yesterday. Even though this was one of the greatest fights in the history of the sport, I had been avoiding watching this fight again over the years because I was a big Hitman Hearns fan and was devastated that night in ’81 when he lost. It did, however, bring back memories of when I viewed the fight on a big closed-circuit screen (no such thing as PPV back then). I remember how my whole body trembled uncontrollably as the fighters made their walk to the ring through the crowd to the sound of Rocky music. Those moments were electrifying. That kind of excitement is rarely seen today in the minutes leading to a bout. Unlike the situation of a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight from happening, it was a time when the two best fighters in the world did in fact face each other in the ring.