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...gentlemanly fight last week with Roberto Duran, undisputed Middleweight Champion of the World Marvin Hagler was both an evident winner and an obvious loser, perversely confirming the curious viewpoint of the Las Vegas judge who scored six of the 15 rounds for nobody. The fight was not as close as the scores indicated (on two of three cards, Duran could have taken the decision in the last round), but it was close enough to reprieve Duran as a personification of shame and to reduce Hagler as a figure of terror...
...Duran, of course, was a lightweight in his prime, and as champion for nearly seven years he batted out 135-lb. contenders with a feral joy. But by 1979 the little Panamanian monster had eaten his way up to the welterweights (147), none of whom fell apart when he hit them, least of all Sugar Ray Leonard. Pulling something unknowable out of himself, Duran defeated Leonard in 1980, but leaving it there five months later, he quit against Leonard in disgrace. "No más" became the most notorious phrase in any language. Roberto lost two subsequent fights, but then...
Hagler slammed into Duran with some body shots and then landed four or five good head shots, climaxed by a right that stunned Duran and drove him backward. The last two minutes were a brawl, with Duran pinned much of the time on the ropes. The challenger threw a lot of punches in an effort to fight his way off, but Hagler outpunched...
...fight came 15 days short of three years since the 32-year-old Duran stunned the sports world by saying "No mas" and quitting in the eighth round to lose the World Boxing Council welterweight title back to Sugar Ray Leonard, who was at ringside Thursday night. There was no quit in Duran this time...
...while Moore was outgunned, Hagler had the guns, and he had to use them all as Duran made a superb bid to write boxing history. He lost, but he further wiped out the disgrace of the loss to Leonard in New Orleans...