Greatest Fights - Hagler v Hearns with Andy Lee
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Tommy ‘The Hitman’ Hearns met in April 1985 for two and a half of the most explosive rounds in boxing history.
Former world middleweight champion Andy Lee, who later trained in the famous Kronk gym with Hearns’ trainer Emmanuel Steward, watches along with Mike and Steve and remembers the legacy this fight left in Detroit.
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| 0:45.0 | Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights. |
| 0:50.0 | Thanks for joining us once again on Five Live Boxing with Costello on Bunce and the |
| 0:57.3 | latest in our series of Greatest Fights and today it's the one that many of you listening will have as your undisputed |
| 1:05.0 | all-time number one contest. We're going back Steve to Las Vegas and April |
| 1:09.2 | 1985. Back in Caesar's Palace, back outdoors, back under the stars, and back with that crowd that |
| 1:17.2 | gathers. And what I like about this fight? Well I like everything about this fight, but I |
| 1:20.3 | throw something in right at the very top. This is how old Vegas this fight is. |
| 1:24.5 | This is how this is how set in history this fight is. Liberace and Sikh |
| 1:30.0 | freedom Roy, the magicians, they're used in some of the telecasts as the Americans say |
| 1:36.4 | to predict the outcome that's what it is liberati talks about this fight might think about it that way. |
| 1:43.8 | It's a fight for the undisputed middleway championship |
| 1:46.7 | of the world between marvelous Marvin Hagler |
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