Best fighter Marvin Hagler could beat …

… at 168 pounds.

That’s the twist.

Of course it’s completely speculative as we never saw Marvelous as a super middleweight. He didn’t have an overly large frame for a middleweight and never, to my knowledge, really struggled to make 160 — sure he had to train hard and eat right, but I don’t recall him ever sweating or starving off a lot of pounds to tip the scale at the limit. In fact he was usually under 160 by a comfortable margin even as champion, coming in at 158 and change often.

The highest recorded weight I can find for him is 163 in his fourth pro fight. So we really have no measuring stick for a prime Hagler at 168 … he wasn’t the type to take a non-title fight in between defenses against some journeyman at a ‘more comfortable’ weight (even if above 160 actually would have been more comfortable to him), and the super middleweight division was barely around during his fighting days and certainly hadn’t been established enough to make it worth his while to pursue at the end of his career.

But let’s take a mythical MMH at 165-ish to 168 and venture a guess at who the best he could beat at that weight was. I’ll need to think about it before weighing in, so to speak (and I might need to sweat off a few pounds to make the limit), so I’ll let you guys throw the first salvo.

 

Couldn’t beat him at 160, don’t see it at super middle.