If John Mugabi, young and brimming with power of a natural middleweight can't knock out an older past his prime Hagler, I have a hard time thinking that Hearns would have ever stopped Hagler. Hagler was a very good boxer, more than people will give him credit, he would have eventually caught up to Hearns and has shown he had the power to stop him. So Hearns couldn't stop Hagler but Hagler could stop Hearns, and Hearns would have to fight super cautious behind the jab for 12 rounds but Hagler would have found a way inside it eventually and there's no way Hearns would have beat him with just that for an entire 12 rounds, that plus the fact Hearns had nothing to move Hagler backwards really, once Hagler took Hearns perfect right hand on the button and kept coming, the fight was over, cause Hearns wasn't going to win a decision with Hagler mauling him the whole fight.
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