text: why can't most boxing fans realize what happened in hagler v leonard? anyone who beleives hagler really lost to leonard is too naive for explanation. hagler was a 10 to 1 favorite over leonard and with good reason. when they fought, leonard had only fought once in five years, had never fought as a middleweight and he lost to one of his toughest opponents, hearns,  who hagler annihilated in less than 3 rounds. hagler was a machine who feared no one and beat everyone yet, against leonard, well past posing any serious threat to marvelous,  we were to believe hagler was suddenly cowed into "fighting" like a brownie. the truth goes something like this:  a certain organization, paid hagler to allow leonard to win as they placed an incredible sum on the underdog. hagler's official payday would have netted him less than 5 million had he won. instead, already a legend, he took approx. 50 million vis a vis offshore account to take the fall; the payday made possible by the organization's bets of upwards of 100 million on leonard, earning the bettors about 1 billion what corruption in boxing!? say it ain't so.