VHS Opening The Superfight Hagler vs Leonard

The Superfight Hagler vs Leonard  QMI Video - 1987  No Print Date

Transcript

00:30A QMI video presentation, sponsored by Honda Motorcycles.

00:53I've been looking forward to this fight for years.

01:00This is not a career for you. This is one fight.

01:03This is a dream, a dream that has become a reality.

01:06I am the best fighter in the world.

01:10The reason I will win is because you don't think I can.

01:21A ninja, his strength and swiftness have become legend.

01:31Yet even the ninja knows, all things must hide from the hurricane.

01:42Hurricane Honda.

01:53The eyes of the world are focused on Las Vegas.

01:56Along the way, his super fight between marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard is only days away.

02:04As the five month media blitz reaches its climax,

02:07Hagler and Leonard granted their final interviews.

02:14All along I wanted to fight Hagler, not a career. I didn't want a career anymore because I had a quite illustrious career.

02:20And I just didn't know how to break the news to the media or to the public and say I want to fight Hagler

02:25because they would have been saying what they're saying now. You're crazy.

02:28I've been waiting, I tell you, for a long time.

02:30And like I said, I think that this is my time, this is my era, this is my day for me to shine.

02:36I'm doing something I always felt I could do. There's no surprise to me.

02:39Sounds a little cocky, doesn't it? But it's me.

02:42I mean, I feel that good. I feel that confident about my progress and about my conditioning.

02:47I'm going to stop him. I don't know which round he's going to be in. I'm going to stop him.

02:51He won't outstrengthen me.

02:53I mean, again, people say, Ray, you know, you're a little guy.

02:56I'm 30 years old. I'm an old, not old, not old, but I'm a much older guy.

03:02So I carry my weight five.

03:04You better sit there and get your popcorn early. I told you, your beers and whatever. Sit tight.

03:09But this fight don't necessarily have to go 12 rounds.

03:12I want to take this time to wish Marvin and Bertha and their family Godspeed and all of that good stuff

03:19because they are truly wonderful people.

03:21We've had the pleasure of meeting them and talking with them, and I really do like them.

03:26They're nice people.

03:28That doesn't take away the fact that they're nice people, honey. I like them.