The inspiration for our Ebay Item of the Week came from Grantland's fantastic read on the 1987 Leonard-Hagler fight. Names like Hagler, Hearns, Leonard, Holmes, Chavez, Spinks, Tyson, and Duran, made the '80s a great time to be a boxing fan. The Leonard-Halger matchup was perhaps the biggest of that decade.
Hit the rewind button to 1981. Coming off the famous "No Mas" fight, Welterweight Champ "Sugar" Ray Leonard defended his title against southpaw Larry Bonds in America's favorite on-campus teflon-inflated roof stadium, The Carrier Dome. We've gone from world championship boxing to Monster Truck Jams. Oh, how you've grown up Dome.
Looking for some time to kill? Well here's Part I of the fight from Youtube. It features some god-awful camera work and a ring announcer wearing some Charles Nelson Reilly-like glasses. Enjoy.
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