Hagler is considered to be the greatest MW of all time which is arguable. But looking at his resume all his big wins were against smaller men moving up like Hearns and Duran. There's not one MW on his resume that screams "Great" if anything, Jones and Monzon have better resumes. Most of the greats went up and challenged themselves. Hagler didn't seem to want to do that. He could've went up and faced Michael Spinks but he chose to take the easy way out and stay in a dead division. Why does Hagler get a pass for this.
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Originally posted by Sheldon312 View PostHagler is considered to be the greatest MW of all time which is arguable. But looking at his resume all his big wins were against smaller men moving up like Hearns and Duran. There's not one MW on his resume that screams "Great" if anything, Jones and Monzon have better resumes. Most of the greats went up and challenged themselves. Hagler didn't seem to want to do that. He could've went up and faced Michael Spinks but he chose to take the easy way out and stay in a dead division. Why does Hagler get a pass for this.
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Because he dominated his division. Hagler stopped other guys from shining.
The smaller fighters got established doing great work in the weight classes without Hagler.
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There was no 168 division, he would have had to jump from 160-175. Do you see the size of Hagler compared to todays MW's?
And they say Golovkin is small.
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Originally posted by Sheldon312 View PostHagler is considered to be the greatest MW of all time which is arguable. But looking at his resume all his big wins were against smaller men moving up like Hearns and Duran. There's not one MW on his resume that screams "Great" if anything, Jones and Monzon have better resumes. Most of the greats went up and challenged themselves. Hagler didn't seem to want to do that. He could've went up and faced Michael Spinks but he chose to take the easy way out and stay in a dead division. Why does Hagler get a pass for this.
You actually think making weight your whole career equates to getting a pass for not going to 175 to fight Spinks?
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He fought at a time where there were same day weigh ins and where the next above division was 175lbs...which was essentially the division BEFORE Heavy. I think that about covers it.
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When hagler fought there was no 168.
He wasnt even a huge middleweight he was even smaller than golovkin. He walked around at 170 and never more so weight cutting no issue, fighters were all slim and in shale and fought at their or near their walk around weights because of same day weigh ins.
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