Nunn vs Hagler

Now that would have been an interesting fight, McCallum at his middleweight best!

 

Man, isn't just nuts when you go and watch some of Nunn vs Toney and you see just how flipping small James Toney once was? It is Bugs Bunny/Loony Toons near jaw dropping small!

 

Bingo, Hagler walks him down between 8-10

 

Lol, can you imagine back then seeing a picture from the future of Toney.. The heavyweight version!
You wouldn't have believed it.

 

I do think that Marvelous Marvin Hagler would have a fight on his hands against Second To None Michael Nunn. Marvelous did have a weakness, he did not fare well against boxers. Eugene Cyclone Hart, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Willie The Worm Monroe, come to mind. Counter punchers made for a long night for the Marvelous one. Nunn was a good boxer, who would stay away from the aggressive Hagler, making him miss, and countering, building up points. Hagler was most dangerous, when fighters came to him to engage, the Tommy Hearns bout. I see Hagler winning this one late, by a stoppage in round 12. Nunn, ahead on points, gets caught by an exhausted Hagler, as this fight shows resemblance to the 1941 World Heavyweight Title bout between Billy Conn and the great Joe Louis.

 

He can Nunn but he cannot hide.

 

Hagler by late stoppage.

Nunn may build a points lead with his speed of hand and foot, but Hagler should catch up with him.

 

His career after Toney was at 168 and 175 and he simply didn't perform as well as his 160 lb prime. I really feel he began to slide after the Kalambay win. For whatever reason, he couldn't maintain his prime form for very long, unlike, for example, fellow slickster Pernell Whitaker.

 

So in a prime vs prime match up, Micheal is Second to one.

 

Prime Hagler wins on points. Any other version of Hagler loses on points.

 

Had Hagler stuck around after the Leonard fight, and faced Nunn in circa 88, I think Nunn would have won.

Peak Hagler (80-83) would have systematically broken Nunn down and stopped him late.

 

Good, good stuff! Boxing puns are the true calling card of the legit boxing nerd. This is totally in the wrong place, and I would have to believe that if I came up with the following on my own, then it almost certainly existed already, but I was watching a fairly famous fight a few months back when it came to me outta nowhere the giant marketing failure of not promoting Juan Manuel Marquez vs Juan Diaz as "There can be only Juan"

 

wow. Hagler had a 75 inch reach. The 1988 Nunn? He was like Tyson, he had a short window when he was exceptional and somehow he started to stand still. Maybe Kalambay, and then after that he struggled with Barkley and that might have done something to how he fought or maybe he could not move as fluidly as he could before. Either way Hagler by close UD. Nunn being southpaw is tough for another southpaw.

 

Hope Michael gets his life back on track must of been very hard to fall so far .He's done his time .

 

Nunn looks good for this in the early stages, but I think even Hagler MK'87 would have caught up with Nunn by the later stages of the bout. The stoppage is likely.