Open Weight Class... Dempsey vs. Hagler

Was he? Don't think he was 5'10, more like 5'8, no?

 

Dempsey KO 1 Hagler

 

Dempsey KO 1

 

File this one next to that LaMotta vs. Louis thread from a while back.

 

There's a good chance that Jack Dempsey would send Marvin Hagler to hospital if he was given the opportunity to wind up with that left.

That iron chin would receive an almighty dent.

 

i would position small money if long enough odds simply because hagler is in many ways the opposite of dempseys usual opponents(minus carpentier to some extent) and dempseys usual tactics may(!) not be enough.

 

Hagler.

Dempsey was a clod compared to the real fighters who came later.

 

Dempsey vs, Hagler...the Dempsey who had to fight bigger men in hobo camps in order to survive...the man who slaughtered Jess Willard on July 4,1919...the man who was knocked out of the ring against Firpo in 1923...had no idea where he was between rounds...and then KO's Firpo in the 2nd round in one of the greatest and wildest fights ever???...next question

 

I can only see Dempsey winning this. Hagler,as he put it himself,was a legit Middleweight. He was never seen in the ring at 175 lbs.

 

Or the man who was KO'd in 20 seconds by a .500 fighter, who lost repeatedly to a fat butterball and who, after fighting a black man once, found a way to avoid opponents of color for the rest of his career.

Yeah, I'll take Hagler... if Dempsey even shows up.

 

Dempsey destroys him.

 

Hagler was much better,pound for pound,but he'd be giving away too much fighting weight here.

 

Hagler would be too skilled to get taken out by Jack's sloppy brawling.

Also, Jack wouldn't be able to hover over him if he did knock him down. Tho he wouldn't come close to it.

I think Hagler would possibly TKO him late aftre a barrage of punches.

I really see Dempsey as being to slow, and too low on skill.

People should stop believing in fairytales.