Marvin Hagler v Joe Calzaghe At 168lbs Who Wins?

Got to go with Calzaghe. Hagler was one of the best middleweights in history. Calzaghe was THE best SUPER middleweight in history. You do the math


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I'm with this guy. Hagler by KTFO!

 

I can't believe the bias for old fighters here. Calzaghe fought at a far heavier weight than Hagler ever did against far heavier fighters and he had a style of fighting that could win a lot of points against Hagler ala Sugar Ray Leonard.

The weigh-in eras are even different. You guys obviously don't respect Calzaghe, but dang, just look at the objective facts. Hagler is obviously p4p better than Calzaghe, but Calzaghe became heavier than a Light-Heavy at fight night.

He is also fast, has brains, and very durable.

 

Are you not reading this well?

Hagler would have been the smaller man.

And you're acting like Calzaghe had no skills.

He has skills. He has footwork. He has speed. He has a windmill style that scored points. He's no Pavlik. No one has ever walked through Calzaghe's slaps. Even Hopkins admitted that it's hard to pick shots against Calzaghe because of the volume of punches and the speed they came at.

He's taller and a naturally bigger man than Hagler. Hagler fought 160 same day weigh-in.

Calzaghe fought greater than 175, bordering at 178-9 lbs come fight night.

And he's NOT a slow plodder like Margarito. Outpointing Hagler is not hard to see as an end result, especially when SRL did it to Hagler, and he was the naturally smaller man against Hagler.

 

Calzaghe would beat Hagler kinda like Leonard did, except Leonard was pulling a Calzaghe imitation. Calzaghe would do it better.

 

I have only seen 2 post from you recently and all of them are just nuts. Hagler would ruin RUIN Calzaghe.

 

I'd actually tab Calslappy to take this one. He's a much bigger guy than Hagler, much fleeter of foot, Hagler had trouble with outside boxers sometimes, and I suspect Calzaghe would dance circles around him and throw pitty pat flurries to score points. The X factor for me is how well Calzaghe would handle a great southpaw, as the best one he fought that I can remember off the top of my head is Mario Veit. Don't forget, if Hagler had fought today in an era of previous day weigh-ins, prime Hagler probably would have fought at 154 or possibly even welterweight.

ATG, obviously Hagler is much higher, but head to head I just feel like it's a bad matchup for him.

 

Hagler could outbox him or outfight him. Either way, he wins. Much better technically and much more skilled.

 

Bottom line :good

 

Hopkins was also 43 years old.

 

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