This should be the last version of this fight I will have to upload. The most common version found of this fight is the one that was shown both "live on closed circuit television (CCTV) in 298 locations, with 1.5 million seats in the United States and Canada*" as well as home Pay-Per-View where it was "available to one million homes in 24 cities in the United States."
For $750,000 HBO purchased the delayed broadcast rights to the fight, which they then aired ten days later on September 26. At this time, when CCTV was still more dominant than home PPV, that was the model in play for the biggest of the big fights. Because HBO wasn't airing this fight live they apparently decided they wanted to air just less than an hrs worth of content, probably to fit nicely into the TV scheduling which they managed to do by cutting out pretty much all but two or three of the in between round one minute rest periods. The commentary work for HBO's replay was provided by Larry Merchant and Barry Thompkins, and the third wheel they brought along was Randy Shields, himself a welterweight contender who'd already been in the ring with both Leonard, losing via 10 rd UD in 1978, and in a gutsy performance was stopped in the 12th round of 15 by Hearns only five months earlier in April. He says "counter punch" about 47 times I think.

The live, fight night commentary work for the CCTV/PPV broadcasts was provided by Ferdie Pacheco and Don Dunphy. I can handle listening to Dunphy. Pacheco is almost the same to my ears as Merchant is, and that being unpleasant to say the least. It was my dislike for the commentary of this fight and HBO's commentary for Canelo vs GGG II that made me curious enough to see whether or not I could learn how to edit fight audio and video in the manner I now do and to then share that stuff with other fight fans here on YouTube. Sheesh. And there we have it. Please, enjoy if you should choose to do so.
Mario

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