Who could KO Hagler?

I don't see any one actually knocking him down but I could see a fight getting stopped if Hagler takes too many unanswered punches. Like Roy Jones vs Merqui Sosa

 

Well he took Thomas Hearns's bombs.

 

Yeah, that's pretty good indication that he could take it from Benn, but JJ is a harder puncher than even Hearns, and like I said in an earlier post, anybody can get caught and have their lights put out or get decked, even Hagler.....especially vs JJ, but I doubt that it would have happened.

 

Hagler has one of the very best chins I have ever seen. The incoming that he took from Mugabi was prodigious, but he just shook it off. :bbb I'd venture to say that he was pretty much bomb-proof at that weight.

Put a gun to my head, however, and I'd probably pick Golovkin and Hearns as the two fighters that would have the best chance of doing something to the granite.

Hearns shook him up for an instant with a right hook (and broke his hand iirc) ... if he would have followed up on that ... maybe. Just because Hearns didn't KO him, doesn't mean that he *couldn't*.

Golovkin has two things going for him - his "lucky punch" aka left to the liver, where I feel Hagler may have been softer than his impenetrable beard - and the fact that GGG mixes his shots up well; seems to me that he manages to hide it when he loads up, making it more of a surprise when the power comes.

It must have sucked so much to fight Marvellous ... :yep

 

He had an iron head not just an iron chin.

Even those temple shots that can really mess with your equilibrium, probably wouldnt effect marvin.

He had the advantages of having a short head that was thick skulled and iron made.

 

I'm of similar thinking.

We saw how hard Tommy Hearns tried.

 

No one, and I DO mean no one, at 160.

 

Eduardo lausse would knock any middle or even heavier with his fearsome left hook. Hagler would not be able to stand up to a lausse left hook.

 

At his weight? Absolutely nobody!

 

Hagler had the opportunity to move up to light heavy and fight Dwight Muhammad Qawi. I think Mike Spinks as well. He declined. Either could have knocked him out.

Hagler's chin looked near bullet proof at 160 pounds. I'm just wondering who really tested it with hard shots that landed.

Outside of Mugabi, were there many middle weight punchers from 1980-1985 that Hagler fought?

From memory Mugabi took an early lead by boxing, not with raw power.

 

I think all of them had the power to do it. But it would just be a question of weather or not they could linger around long enough before getting knocked out themselves.

 

Difference between could and would. I think him taking "Hearns's best bombs" is exaggerated. That's not to say he couldn't take them, but the shot that seemed to do the most damage was a short Hearns right hand in the first 10 seconds. Hagler appeared briefly stunned, then recovered quickly. Hearns was most dangerous when he had distance to get more leverage on that right hand (Cuevas, Duran, Shuler). Hearns did get some distance and landed some looping rights around Hagler's guard, but I don't think it was his "best shots" like people have said.

In an earlier Hagler fight, I think Hart, Hagler seemed stunned at the end of a round. That was the most "hurt" I've seen him, as I'm being generous to Cyclone to say "hurt".

Hagler had a great chin and solid defense. Perhaps he could get KO'd by a perfect shot he doesn't see coming and walks into, like Jackson did to Graham.

But chances are, Hagler outboxes Jackson and breaks him down and stops him.

I wouldn't pick anyone to stop Hagler

 

At 160..only GGG maybe

 

At 160, Jones if he was really commited to a body attack but I doubt it

GGG

 

Plus Spinks had reach and even speed on Marvin. Still, I don't see any middleweights KOing him unless on cuts.