30 Years Later: Why The Douglas-Holyfield Fight Is Worth Remembering

By: Sean Crose
One of the strangest things about being a fight fan is that you’re able to remember the details. I’ll never forget tearing open the Waterbury paper at ten years of age to read about the first Leonard-Duran fight, or hearing kids on the school bus griping about the second. I was in the car with my father when I learned Holmes had dropped Cooney in the second round, and still remember the smile on my old man’s face that let me know Hagler had defeated Hearns the ni