Hagler vs. Jones jr. Middleweight, in their Prime.

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I don't think a lot of you are truly familiar with Marvin Hagler. At the end of his career, against Hearns, Leonard and Mugabi, he came forward and took punches to land punches. His chin was impregnable and he punched real hard.
The REAL Marvin Hagler was a very fast very accurate boxer. He threw fast, hard straight punches, and he worked the body very well. He was very mobile and hard to hit and, as always, you couldn't hurt the man.
RJJ at MW was, at best, an advanced amateur, with power "proven" against Jorge Vaca and Art Serwano. His fight with Hopkins was terrible: when Hagler was coming up it would've been a 6 rounder. The idea of RJJ "potshotting" Hagler is beyond ridiculous. This fight, between a prime Hagler and RJJ at 160, would not go 6 rounds and it would not be pretty. At any weight, Hagler wins because Jones Jr never had the bottom for a real fight.

I stopped reading when i see this comment.


RJJ at MW was, at best, an advanced amateur,

[Barlick]

I stopped reading when i see this comment.


RJJ at MW was, at best, an advanced amateur,

That's the problem with these fantasy fights. You take two great fighters and someone always weighs in with some ludicrously disparaging remark about one or the other.

There was a marathon Lewis-v-Marciano thread on another site. The poll concluded that the glass-jawed faggot beat the overrated club fighter hands down - at least if you believed many of the comments.

I'd go for Hagler on this one, although to my mind, Jones didn't stay long enough atop the middleweight division to draw a fair comparison, whereas Hagler of course is an all-time great at the weight. And somehow I cannot picture Hagler at super-middle, too small.

Yeah, Hagler to catch up with the amateur late on.

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Hagler, as 160 was not Roy's best weight.