Hearns right on Hagler instead of Duran

Moving up is so over-rated these days, it's not even funny. So often both fighters have moved up, therefore they're not fighting and beating naturally bigger men. Pacquaio has titles in a billion weight classes yet nobody in their right mind would compare his achievements to a Henry Armstrong with his 'mere' 3 titles

Hearns was a 6'1 welterweight. He grew out of the division and became a natural lightmiddle then middleweight. After that he was fighting out of his natural weight class IMO. Besides a still good Hill which proven topflight fighters did he beat at the top level above 160? Andries was crude as crude gets. Who else? Leonard? in '89 at 168 pounds Leonard was nothing special

p.s could you ever imagine Hearns having moved up to fight a Michael Spinks at 175? (this was not even a possibility due to timelines, but it would have been a non competitive massacre after about round 2, with Tommy on the receiving end)

At the end of the day...the merit in moving up in weight has progressively diminished in the past 25 years

 

I agree, thats why I alwasy said Carlos Monzon was a bum, he never moved up ! Or why Carlos Palomino was a hprrible champ. he never moved up ! I completely disagree with you abou the `moving` up. How does Hearns add to his legacy by beating andries ??? Or do you think SRL became a ring immortal by beating the legendary Don Lalonde ? I think greatness can be neasured by getting the title, then cleaning up your division. As for fighting Spinks, he would have destroyed Hearns and we both know that there would have been no discussion about Hearns moving up if spinks or Foster were the belt holder. It would have been an idiotic move for Hagler giving Spinks size for Hagle. Hearns never even held the TRUE belt in any didvision. Hagler had em all ! Your lack of respect for Hagler is obvious. You keep looking for ways to prove Hearns better than him Since he obvioulsy could never prove sharing the ring, now its about moving up. Quite comical actually...

 

Hate to burst your bubble, but ... While Hearns was winning alphabet titles in different weight classes. Hagler won (arguably) the most coveted and respected belt in all boxing and kept it, unified. Watered down so called `championship` belts, don`t truly carry the weight of linear and true champion.

 

Hagler was not to be denied that night in 1985...