Could the best version of Floyd Mayweather beat the Marvin Hagler who lost to Sugar Ray Leonard?

Ha!

Are you actually being serious?

Don’t be stupid.

Yes, this is a fantasy fight looking at the version of Marvin that Ray fought.

As in - a 1987 version.

So we are speculating how that version may have fared.

However, that doesn’t mean that we have to assume that he’d have chosen the exact same strategy and tactics that he did against Ray.

Have a day off.

If we looked at a fantasy fight between fighter X, and Ali from the Foreman fight, would we have to assume that Ali would have employed the same ‘rope a dope’ tactics?

SMH.

 

Don't worry, " Mark" and " Red Rooster" will still prefer their fiction over the facts....

 

Not that Mayweather Jr wouldn't have the skills, but he'd be severely overwhelmed by Haglers strength and size.
I see the same results as Hagler vs Duran. A fight where the smaller man may have had better overall skills, but it only kept the bull at bay for just so long.
Unlike fighters like Leonard and Hearns that carried their power and physicality with them as they went up in weight. May Jr. Never demonstrated that. This is proven on how many distance fights he had as he went up in weight. His ko percentages took a nose dive as his weight increased.
Factor this in with the fact of most of his opponents ( All?) were basically past their primes, or wasn't that great at all , I see a fighter that would've had a few losses if he fought in a different era as he went up in weight.
I see a fight between Hagler and Mayweather as almost a carbon copy of the fight Hagler had against Duran.
Even the version of Hagler that fought Leonard. Hagler eventually grind him down, get a late stoppage or win a dec.
Also, another fact Mayweather Jr. Fans refuse to except. His very best was never at welterweight, but at Jr. Lightweight.
He was smart enough to realize this and became very selective about his opponents as he went up in weight.
So unless you believe a natural super featherweight would have a chance against a natural middleweight , even a slightly past prime middleweight in Hagler their shouldn't be any doubt about who would actually win this fight.
Hagler would simply overwhelm him.

 

The best version of Floyd was probably at junior lightweight so probably not.

 

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Hagler won by quite a margin, justifying the claims from Hagler fans that Hagler emerged the true winner, although by no means impressive.

Still, a win is a win and Hagler left the sport with 63 - 2 - 2

while Leonard is left with a very average 35 - 5

 

that's hilarious

Duran of the infamous no mas fight, the author of quitting in mid round, calling Hagler a coward

and what's worse, you were the one to quote him, believing you had a valid point

 

almost ANY decent fighter would stand a good chance the cheap, lifeless version of '87

just slightly superior to Don Lalonde '88

 

just stating the facts

cant argue with numbers and the eye cannot lie!

so you are s$#%t out of luck this time and we both know it

Leonard lost to Hagler, no matter HOW washed up he was!

 

why would you quote duran?

He was an infamous quitter who lost his nerve and destroyed his own reputation

 

why would I participate in your poll?

could Floyd outpoint a washed up and unmotivated Hagler where Leonard failed?

To put it bluntly; whatever Leonard did, Floyd did better