Was Marvin Hagler ever hurt?

From: http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9356046

 

If you watch the massacre there is a moment that Minter catches him with a huge left hook, that clearly bothered him.

 

Wayne McCullough fought Erik Morales at super-bantamweight and Naseem Hamed at featherweight, who were both naturally bigger than him as well as being seriously powerful punchers for their respective weights. Both could hardly dent his chin.

Mugabi had a serious punch but was moving up, same with Hearns.


Name me two hitters on Hagler's C.V on equal measure.

 

He was momentarily hurt against many fighters including Minter, great chin, great condition, big heart = Not letting it stop your attack.

 

Thanks for the link. The story I heard was that the average man has a quarter of an inch of muscle over the temples, but Marvin Hagler has an inch and a quarter.

If it were anyone besides Hagler (or maybe McCall) I would dismiss these stories as bull****, but there has to be an explanation for a chin that borders on the supernatural.

 

Hearns didn't even hurt hagler at all really. That is just a myth.. Sure it landed good and stopped him in his tracks for a second.. a second.. and then he goes back to trading blows with Hearns. Don't think he was hurt.

 

Not really "badly" hurt, but stunned by Mugabi, Leonard and Hearns.

 

I'd still say Hearns and possibly Mugabi were bigger hitters at Middleweight than Morales was at Super Bantam. Same with Briscoe, same with Hart (although both were passed their primes) and a few others would be on a par. That's mostly nullified by the sheer volume of flush shots Morales was landing that McCullough just shrugged off. Hagler never really took that kind of sustained punishment, even though he faced more formidable punchers.

As for the Hamed fight, that'd be a great example if Hamed was routinely hitting him with big shots, but he wasn't. He only landed a few big, clean shots the entire fight.

McCullough no doubt had an awesome chin, but the Morales fight was a better display than the Hamed fight, even though Hamed was easily the bigger puncher. Hagler's chin was just as proven overall, in my opinion.

 

Eugene Hart had him stunned. If you want to see how Hagler coped boxing on the backfoot, then see this masterclass. I cant remember which round, but in this fight is one of the classiest knockdowns ive ever seen, set up with beautiful lateral movement.

 

Yeah, I know which one you're talking about. Makes Hart look like he has cement in his shoes.

 

Hagler was never seriously rocked in his career. And living in MA. I followed his whole career. I got to be very good friends with Goody Petronelli, both my sons boxed out of his gym. And he let me in on a secret about MMH. Seems that years ago he had to get a CT scan/xray ? and the Docs wanted to talk to Goody after. Goody was concerned, but the the doc. said that Hagler had an abnormally thick skull. Goody always thought that played a big role in Hagler`s ability to take punches. Someone should have told Hearns, who broke his hand on Hagler`s menacing dome. The `knockdown` he suffered against Roldan, was the result of Roldan pulling down on Haglers head...

 

That was a beautiful boxing lesson. Everytime someone says Hagler was a brawler because they've only seen the Hearns and Mugabi fights I want to force them to watch bouts like that.

 

I just dug that one out after reading this; it was the third round.

 

Hagler was one of the most versatile fighters ever, for sure.

It really does drive me nuts that I can't objectively rank him the #1 middleweight of all-time. Being great consumed his life, and I feel he could beat anybody in history at 160 head-to-head. Well, I think he would've beaten SRL in a rematch anyway too as he obviously didn't come out in top in that one.

 

Another boxing clinic, watch the tape of his fight with `Bad` Bennie Briscoe. Afetr suffering a massive cut along his brow early on. He gives Briscoe a boxing lesson the rst of the way. And Briscoe kept heavy pressure on him the whole time, leading with that hard head of his. Switching directions, popping a steady jab and only stopping to land swift combinations. Hagler was a damn good boxer when he chose to outslick someone.