Where Do You Rate Hagler, In Punching Power?

Good power but nothing absurd, Hagler would be a big welterweight these days, cutting to 147 and rehydrating. Didn’t have power of the likes of Jackson, Mclellan, Golovkin, Benn etc.

 

Middle of the pack. Abraham and Pavlik hit harder.

 

Good power but not top shelf. hagler had the rep as a slugger but in my opinion his greatness was his versatility as a boxer and his all-round toughness.

 

He was a sharp puncher if not overwhelming, but he was so good at putting punches together so fluidly and accurately that he sometimes appeared more powerful than he might have been.

 

If im not mistaken Hagler has the highest knockout ratio of all undisputed middleweight champs at 78%.
I believe this number speaks for itself.

 

no it does not speak for itself. there's more to knocking people out than brute power.

 

Agreed. The stat is, if anything, a little misleading.

 

A good question. A historian list of middle weight punchers is needed. I say he rates better than say 65-70% of middle with champions, not that I made such a list. I list a few non-champions ahead of him too. In fact lots of them. This to say his power was good, not very good, excellent or at the remarkable level.

 

I'd say his power is a 7 outta 10 .

 

Wasn’t Benn-like of course, but he could wallop

 

Hagler didn't

I agree it takes more then brute power and not all of Haglers ko's were. If I was giving my opinion then sure disagree but you disagreeing with a statistic kind of doesent make sense.

 

This. hagler dissected people and broke them down. He wasn't a one trick power pony like Jackson for instance