The different styles of boxing

The stiff jab and sharp straight right did remind me a little of hagler but also was very different. Hagler had great head movement and was very clever defensively. I haven't seen that dimension of gggs game as of yet

 

Getting into a war with an atg knockout artist who is 4 inches taller than you hardly proves he wasn't a great boxer in his own right

 

your judging haglers entire career off of 10 minutes of mayhem against an atg?

Hearns was in that fight too. Does that make him a brawler?

 

Hagler chose to brawl because he knew it was the easiest path to victory

 

Not arguing who of those two was the better boxer. They were both great but IMO Hagler chose to brawl because he knew it was the easiest path to victory

 

Hearns went right after him also. I don't think it's as conclusive as your making it out to be that Hagler needed to go for broke to beat him as if he was the inferior fighter

 

He fought like a bull against Hearns because he had to. Hearns was great at boxing at distance and also got the most power when he had distance for that right hand and got more leverage. The right hand that devastated Cuevas and Duran came when he had distance so he could get leverage. Hagler largely pressed the fight against Leonard. 2 fights...I wonder if years from now people will watch Mayweather fight Judah and Mosley and conclude he was a fighter who liked to walk opponents down behind a high guard.

Hagler was a boxer-puncher more than any other style I'd say. Broke guys down methodically. He liked to use lateral movement, box behind the jab, open up with combinations. As Barry Tompkins said during the first Hamsho fight, Hagler was a surgeon.

While usually people get it right, he still often gets called a pressure fighter or brawler. I can't think of any fighter whose normal style gets labelled incorrectly than him. Interestingly, Leonard is another guy who this happens to as well. People remember the Hagler fight, the Duran rematch, his showboating and often think he was a dancer. When it comes to the first 2 Duran fights, it's sometimes said that Leonard switched from his usual style in the first fight because of Duran's mind games and Leonard's ego, and the rematch was somehow Leonard's normal style

No. Leonard being all fleet-footed in New Orleans was farther from his usual style than his flat-footed style in Montreal. He could use a lot of movement and box on his toes, but it was the exception rather than the norm.

 

Interestingly enough, hagler chose to box sugar ray Leonard and lost a close sd where as Hearns was knocked out by a prime srl

 

I agree with everything you said here but my point is there is no shame in not being able to outbox prime Hearns. Boxer puncher is what he was. Career brawler he was not

 

I just don't see a scenario where hagler loses to Hearns. I just can't see it

 

Hearns also outboxed a prime Leonard. It was a great come from behind KO.