Moving weight classes.

[Barn]

Why do people critisize boxers like Hagler who did not move up or down in weight class but they do not critisize Ali for only fighting in Heavyweight if you are going to rank someone like Hagler lower on a Pound for Pound list because of that reason then surely you need to use the same principles when dealing with Heavyweights?

[Toney616]

Why do people critisize boxers like Hagler who did not move up or down in weight class but they do not critisize Ali for only fighting in Heavyweight

Flawed logic. Hagler could move up to lhw, where was Ali going to move up to? Also Ali would fight guys who were naturally bigger than himself in Foreman and Liston*2

if you are going to rank someone like Hagler lower on a Pound for Pound list because of that reason then surely you need to use the same principles when dealing with Heavyweights?

hw cant move up, so its really better to have a separate list for them. Or you could look at the size difference between hw's for example Bowe outweighted Holyfield by 30 lbs. Thats equivalent to lw fighting a mw