Comments Thread For: Lennox Lewis: Hagler Would Have Too Much For Golovkin

[nacho daddy]

The fact that you refer to this ATG and Legend as "stragler", says a lot about you. Grow up. Hagler WAS a career Middleweight, PERIOD. Just because he didn't jump up to Lightheavy doesn't mean ANYTHING! Spinks was desperate for an opponent, not Hagler. Why would he make that move? To prove what? Exactly. Use your brain before you spew out nonsense, man. It's the same for those who say that SRL ducked Pryor. What was Ray afraid of? he said that Pryor was too little. He also said that Chavez Sr. was too little after he KO'ed Lelonde. Was he wrong? He would've KO'ed them both. So, how was he ducking? Because he didn't fight them? Smarten up man.

so haggler would have KO'd spinks but chose not to .ok I get it now

[nacho daddy]

Can you list the lightweights, welterweights, junior middleweights, that Hagler fought? That would mean 135,147, 154. Thanks in advance.

duran ray leonard and mugabi

[joseph5620]

duran ray leonard and mugabi

Which one weighed 135, 147, or 154 when they fought Hagler?

[nacho daddy]

Which one weighed 135, 147, or 154 when they fought Hagler?

I hope you are joking cause if not then you would be dumb. all of them moved up to fight hagler. duran almost 30 lbs hagler never went anywhere and to match duran hagler would have to fight at cruiser weight. none of them were middleweights all moved up for the money haggler to scared to move out of MW. do you understand now. got to get off the drugs son and may the farce be with you

[Ray Corso]

"hagler was held to a draw by Vito Antuofermo and beat by bugaloo bobby watts and willie munroe not to mention SRL"


whats your point? Vito is dreaded to fight by ANYONE in ANY era, the guy was tough as nails and came at you all night a real life Rocky Balboa.
Bobby Watts was a top ten contender and guys like him and Ray Seales would rule todays 154--160!
Ray Leonard fought smart and waited for Hagler to be far enough away from prime years, very calculated!


Hagler in prime condition would be to much for GGG, Hagler had solid defense and his right hook from his southpaw stance would work nicely plus he could punch in combination and GGG defense is unproven for now but Hagler would bring the test for sure.
I like Haglers skills and experience over a fighter that doesn't have great opponents.
Hagler by tko in 15 or decs. in 12!
Ray

[joseph5620]

I hope you are joking cause if not then you would be dumb. all of them moved up to fight hagler. duran almost 30 lbs hagler never went anywhere and to match duran hagler would have to fight at cruiser weight. none of them were middleweights all moved up for the money haggler to scared to move out of MW. do you understand now. got to get off the drugs son and may the farce be with you

No actually you're pretty dumb. Fighters don't eternally stay in one division after they move up. Once any of those fighters moved up in weight they were no longer in those lower weight classes. Duran was not a lightweight at the time. Leonard was not a welterweight anymore either. If you believe the Hearns that fought Hagler was still a welterweight that confirms how ****** you are and no I'm not joking.

[just the facts]

Bottom line, how could anyone with any common sense pick a fighter with ZERO quality wins to beat another fighter that's in everyones top 3 middleweights of all time? Can't be done, at least not by anyone with a brain

[BoZz]

but but bumlovkin beat the great monroe jr

[Eastcoast]

14 pages and nobody brings up the fact that Hagler would be a JMW or WW by today's standards. Guys from the same-day-weigh-in era are smaller at their weight class than today's fighters.

And anybody who brings up Mugabi as validation of Hagler over Golovkin loses all credibility.

[GOD-FR33]

The red...

14 pages and nobody brings up the fact that Hagler would be a JMW or WW by today's standards. Guys from the same-day-weigh-in era are smaller at their weight class than today's fighters.And anybody who brings up Mugabi as validation of Hagler over Golovkin loses all credibility.

The red is absolutely correct. However, Mugabi was a "BEAST"! No pun intended. He was undefeated and KO'ing everyone at that time, if I'm correct. He would be middleweight KING today. His power was amazing!