Why Marvin Hagler Is The Best Middleweight Of All Time.

[THE THIRD MAN]

That is impressive and congrats for it, i have two words that might put a dampener on it...Carlos Monzon?

[Youngblood]

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[DAWGSWIN]

I love it!!

[JazMerkin]

Excellent post, even if I'm quite split between him & Hopkins on the best MW of all time, but its very well reasoned & a good read.

[kingfrnk]

Excellent post, even if I'm quite split between him & Hopkins on the best MW of all time, but its very well reasoned & a good read.

Agree, too close for me to choose but I say Hopkins is the Greatest MW ever but Hagler can be considered as well.

[holmcall]

Monzon

[Mr140]

Seems that no one brings up Carlos Monzon who never lost in prime had a long reign over the middle weight division and retired the champion.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

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Anyway. Great read.

prime Hagler v Hopkins would have been a Classic.

[Trainer Monkey]

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Anyway. Great read.

prime Hagler v Hopkins would have been a Classic.

That really would have been a great fight,one of them would have had to stop trying to outclever the other and really let it go.
As much as Im a fan of Hopkins,I think Hagler would have let his hands go first.
Neither one of them would have gone down,but I think Hagler's early work would have taken it.

[Kev]

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Anyway. Great read.

prime Hagler v Hopkins would have been a Classic.

That really would have been a great fight,one of them would have had to stop trying to outclever the other and really let it go.
As much as Im a fan of Hopkins,I think Hagler would have let his hands go first.
Neither one of them would have gone down,but I think Hagler's early work would have taken it.

It's also a certainty that whoever lost would bitch about the decision for the next 30 years or so too

[Taeth]

Its interesting because we've seen two versions of Hopkins. 1 version was ferocious like Hagler, with better defense, but less power. Then the second version was an old slickster who knew how to do anything to win a fight, but more importantly nobody ever really nullified Hagler's offensive arsenal, while I don't think I've seen anybody including RJJ, Pavlik, Trinidad, De La Hoya, and Calzaghe be effective offensively against Hopkins.

Anyways sorry for bringing him up, Its just I would have loved to have seen them battle out the middleweights supremecy.

[Jimanuel Boogustus]

Its interesting because we've seen two versions of Hopkins. 1 version was ferocious like Hagler, with better defense, but less power. Then the second version was an old slickster who knew how to do anything to win a fight, but more importantly nobody ever really nullified Hagler's offensive arsenal, while I don't think I've seen anybody including RJJ, Pavlik, Trinidad, De La Hoya, and Calzaghe be effective offensively against Hopkins.

Anyways sorry for bringing him up, Its just I would have loved to have seen them battle out the middleweights supremecy.

No need to appologise mate. Your so right about the evident clash of styles.