Hagler,Duran and others I wish I had appreciated earlier.

I wouldnt call them undervalued, for me its Hopkins, I didnt really value him that high until he schooled pavlik, it made me a big fan of the man and respect his atg ring iq.

 

Agree specially on Hagler!

 

Wilfredo Benitez was truly one of the All-time greats but never really received the attention he should have. This guy was an amazing fighter, and fought all of the top guys. Hearns, Leonard, Duran and many others at lower weight classes. I love Duran, but Benitez made him miss punches that no one could make duran miss. Hearns and leonard the same thing. As far as Hagler goes, he was the best at middleweight. He should have been appreciated more in his earlier days. That guy was a monster. I think he got screwed in the Leonard fight, but Leonard knew how to charm the crowd and the judges. Hagler could have handled himself with any middleweight in the history of boxing. I recall the classic fight with Hagler & John The Beast Mugabi. A masterpiece of a fight by Hagler. He broke Mugabi down with precision.

 

Duran, undervalued?

Everyone loves Manos de piedra.

 

Yeah everybody loves him but he is still undervalued. Cause the more casual fans will only know him from the fights against the rest of the Fab 4. That doesn't do him justice. He was old and way above his weightclass against Hearns and Hagler.

He basically ruled lightweight a decade long before that. And has with Barkley had a very notable win years later.

For me he is def top 5 p4p all time and arguably even top 3.

I've seen a lot of lists where Sugar Ray Leonard is ranked above him. That irritates the hell out of me. I think these people are undervaluing him.

 

Marvin Hagler was very, very popular, even before he fought Hearns. He certainly surpassed Duran in popularity after Roberto disgraced himself and boxing against Leonard in New Orleans.

He just had a different image than a lot of the crossover appeal boxers (Ali, Leonard, De la Hoya).. his image was "no nonsense" always. You see, boxing was on free network TV (ABC, CBS, NBC) in those days. That **** fight last night?.. that would have been on Sunday CBS afternoon and nobody would have cared, because Cintron was involved. Boxers were more popular then.

Leonard-Hagler was HUGE going in, and very few really believed that Leonard could pull it off against the by then legendary Hagler.

 

Duran and Hagler are certainly not undervalued on this site, Pity. Wanna talk about under-valued? Johnny Tapia. Michael Spinks. Jeff Chandler. Under-valued in their own time and in ours.

 

I wasn't trying to derail your thread, brother. To be honest, I probably do undervalue Duran and Hagler. I haven't seen a great deal of their fights outside of the obvious. I've never sat down and properly studies either one of them. I should sort myself out.

 

Never really appreciated James Toney when he was in his prime.

Looking back at his fights now makes me wish Id paid him more attention.

 

duran and hagler were awesome to watch,they were special fighters,true greats

 

I wish people would appreciate Bones Adams.