Marvin Hagler V Joe Calzaghe

i saw the briscoe fight.

briscoe would have been a champ today.

he was something like a more polished feroucious glen johnson in style.

hagler turned counterpuncher in that fight , decked briscoe breifly but briscoe just kept coming and amde it a hard fight.

right there i new hagler would be champ.
antuerfermo IMO got the benefit of the doubt.
i had hagler winning.


hagler came up old school and trained brilliantly for every fight .

 

one thing in calzaghe defense in this hypothetical

hagler at 5.8 would be a tiny super middleweight.

 

Jc is listed at an even 6 foot but dosen't look it:nono more like 5-10 or 5-11 boxers and the media always exaggerate their height:deal why i don't know it just works that way..

 

Hagler didn't have much problems with a 6' 1" Hearns but I think Calzaghe a better boxer than Hearns. Granted Hearns had far more power than Calzaghe.

I'd lean towards Hagler. He would be able to turn the fight into a war and I've never seen Calzaghe in anything that even resembled a war. If they got into a bomb trading stanza I think Hagler would be able to take Joe's best shots. Calzaghe has a pretty good chin too but in a war-type-of-fight I don't know too many guys that were in Hagler's league.

 

This is a 50-50 fight, both guy's had excellent, boxing skills, great stamina, iron chins and lots of Heart, JC would have a slight height advantage Hagler the reach, this fight would have a 95% chance of going to the judges, in a close decision..
They could fight 10 times and go 5-5 against each other..:huh

 

I would take Calzaghe UD. Close. I think Joe would win two out of three fights.

 

5.10 calzaghe exagerrating his height next to the 6.1 kessler.

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and the 5.10 listed manfredo with the calzaghe standing on a step ladder.

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Thanks for the pic, they look dead even in size, i didn't realize Kesseler was 6-1 i've never seen these 2 this close up, damn their both going bald, especially Joe:smoke

 

Not to be forgotten is that in truth the fighters are 2 weight divisions apart not one . Hagler fought in the age of same day weigh-ins and made 157 as late as the Duran fight . He's a mordern day Light-Middleweight .

Calzaghe would of been a career long Light-Heavyweight instead of Super-Middleweight had he been fighting at the time of Hagler .

 

Good point just imagine Hagler at LMW today :yikes

 

Another point of note, Hagler fought over the 15 round distance back then,not to say Joe couldn't do 15 but just another thing that separates their eras.

Correct me if I'm wrong,but was the Sugar Ray fight one of the first championship fights over 12.You wonder if it was over 15 whether Hagler would've caught up with him eventually.

 

Nothing but respect for the Marvelous One, but Joe would have been a little too big, and a little too quick.

 

Marvin comes from a bygone era that Joe respects more than anyone.. Even Joe would tell you that he would have had to go out into the woods for a year to train for a motivated Marvin.. Hagler by a late stoppage and that is no disgrace...

 

Remember watching Hagler completely destroy Alan Minter all those years ago - looking back on Minter, he wasn't anything special, but Marvin really put on a great show. First round of Hearns/Hagler was just immense tho.

Would have a hard time picking between the two. Both are/were quick, technically sound, intelligent boxers, who can tear it up and take shots.

Forced to pick, I'd take Hagler - for the aura he emitted in the ring.

 

I'd take JC by close decision, but it wouldn't be easy.