A bridgerweight vs a modern welter. Oh so fair. It's like people denying Toney wasn't on his death bed the night before the Uncivil War. He was. Get over dat ****.
What does this mean though ? That Benn wasn't huge, but he beat the man who you say is magnitudes too huge for Hagler.
He held about 10+lbs more muscle tissue than Hagler, fighting McClellan. Lay 10lb of lean waterless chicken breast on a table and see how much that is.
That’s kinda funny, coming from a poster, who openly rates McCallum the greatest middleweight of all time and who thinks Nigel Benn ‘blows out’ Sugar Ray Robinson.
It's not just @JohnThomas1. This thread is filled with numerous posters who disagree with you, including yourself on a few laughable occasions, and no amount of you saying 'get over it', 'it happened' or 'deal with it' will make them wrong or you right. Apart from when you contradict yourself. You're making yourself look a tit. Get over it.
I am asking you as a fan of the sport in a thread that you are debating in. You have said numerous times that he rehydrated to a cruiser. By your own admission, he rehydrated to a cruiser after having a hard time making weight. Yet he didn’t have a hard time making weight against Benn, as he came in 3 pounds under the limit. If you’re going to come onto a thread making these kind of claims, then you’ve got to expect people to question them. If you don’t want people questioning them, then stop posting.
Only you could think that a fighter was close to his death before going on to fight the following day. It was 1994, not 1894. Why do you embarrass yourself by writing such nonsense?
Is this really how you fill your days? Only three or four people out of 8billion care. Do something productive.
It's called tongue in cheek. I have no respect for you idiots, so amuse myself sometimes by stretching the truth.
You are filling your days making claims on a boxing forum that I am a member of. Again, we are all replying to YOUR OWN comments. If you don’t want to debate with us, then stop posting. What is wrong with you? If you’re going to go out of your way to post things on here, then members are going to reply to you. That is the purpose of the forum. Basically, you want to type whatever you want without being questioned.
Hagler is obsiously the greater boxer, I doubt anyone disputes that. But this is about H2H. I love Hagler, he's one of my favorite boxers. But the G Man has a good chance. Hagler has the edge in terms of skill, stamina and perhaps even chin. But the G-Man has size on his side, speed and power. 20 pounds weight advantage might not seem much, but it matters when the guy who has that is also very skilled.
But this is the thing. He doesn't have 20lbs on him. That's not feasible. James Toney had a terribly hard time making 168 for Roy Jones Jr. He was a naturally bigger man than McClellan and had an extra 8lbs to play with, needing to make 168 not 160. And he entered the ring at 182lbs. He had rehydrated by 14lbs. And he was terrible as you would expect from someone who had been severely dehydrated the previous morning. And yet, it's being claimed that McClellan lost and regained more than twice that amount and remained devastating. Can you not see where people have grounds to be skeptical? Adding over 20lbs in 36 hours will not transform a dehydrated middleweight into a killer cruiserweight which is what is being claimed here. If he adds that weight by drinking he would have to drink a hell of a lot. And it's not going to come from eating; food won't turn into functional muscle in that timeframe. I don't know, as I have never had to lose a lot of weight, regain it and then fight a world class middleweight but my guess is that if I had spent the last day and a half eating and drinking 15% of my body weight, I'd be better prepared to have a big sh1te than a big fight.
