Quote Originally Posted by TIC View Post
does marvin get a pass for fighting smaller guys & cashing out towards the end of his career?
If this is a way of justifying Canelo v Crawford you are way off.
1. Hagler was a career MW. He didn’t yo-yo up and down the weights. The fact that so-called smaller guys came up to his weight as you say, at the end of his career was because they wouldn’t have dreamed of it at Hagler’s peak.
2. These smaller guys are some of the greatest fighters to lace up gloves at any weight.
We cannot compare Crawford with Hearns, Duran or SRL.
3. Hagler was a small MW . I would argue that Hearns was a bigger guy than him. Leonard would probably have beaten any MW or SMW today, and it was Duran cashing out against Hagler, not the other way round.
4. The guys back then earned a fraction of what Canelo does today. Surely they can’t be blamed for trying to get what they’re worth and what they deserve. And it’s not like they were fighting patsies for it.
Let’s be honest , not just Canelo, but none of these top fighters today are worth the millions they are paid, in Canelo’s case tens of millions.
Back then, it was their pensions they were chasing, nowadays Canelo, Fury, Joshua and others could fund multiple generations of their family tree.