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August 2, 1980: Tommy Hearns wants the WBA welterweight championship. He is fighting Pipino Ceuvas, a Roberto Duran-style fighter. A Hearns jab snaps Ceuvas's head back. Again. Again. Again. Ceuvas throws a combination. It misses by a foot...
...title before he starts offering me a shot. He's got to beat Cuevas first, and Cuevas is a great fighter. Cuevas will knock him out, and I don't want any more questions about Hearns. I want to fight Duran again...
Hearns demolished Cuevas, knocking him out in the second round. Leonard beat Duran in their rematch, landing about six punches while the champ got sick to his stomach...
Leonard's other problem is that he can be hit with a good right hand. He has tagged about a dozen times by Duran's right lead in their Montreal fight, and two of these rights almost put Leonard down. And last Thursday Kalule connected repeatedly with his right jab. Hearns's right hand is a middleweight's right. When it connects it invariably stuns. Leonard can be hurt, and he won't be able to avoid the Hearns right for more than a few rounds...
...Hearns lands his powerful rights, another Leonard flaw will come to the surface. When Sugar Ray fought Duran that first time, it became apparent that not only was Leonard losing, but he was intimidated, even scared. Now Leonard is no Kenny Norton--he won't buckle at the first hard body shot--but he does seem to lose heart when things don't go his way. When he sees that he's having trouble reaching Hearns, and when Thomas starts slamming left hooks to the liver, Sugar Ray will wilt...