Who is the greatest living boxer?

No order.
Jofre
Duran
Hagler
Whitaker
Chavez
Napoles
Leonard
Hearns
Holmes
Lopez


Spinks
Mayweather
Pacquiao
Lewis
Jones Jnr

 

Sergei Kovalev

 

One can strongly argue that Marvin Hagler never lost.

 

Yes he did, he gave the 22years old Hagler a drubbing.

Willie Monroe pummeled a bleeding Marvin Hagler Tuesday night to win a unanimous dcision in a 10-round bout. Monroe, a 160-pound Philadelphian, came out strong against Hagler, a 160-pounder from Brockton, Mass., with left jabs and right hooks. In the 2nd round, Hagler suffered a nose bleed from a short left hook and a straight right hand. In the 5th, Monroe came out with three consecutive uppercuts and Hagler lost his mouthpiece and his nose started to bleed profusely. Hagler tried desperately to battle back and returned with a series of body punches. Monroe picked his opponent apart in the 7th with the jabs and the nose continued to bleed. But in the 8th, Hagler returned with rights and lefts to the body. In the 10th, Monroe took command and put too much pressure on Hagler." - United Press International

Post-Fight Comments:

• "From the 2nd round, I couldn't breathe. I learned a lot from Monroe and I'm still young." - Marvin Hagler
• "I was strong, tall, slick and quick. He couldn't figure me out." - Willie Monroe
• "Monroe had the best fight of his career. Willie just had one of those nights every fighter dreams about." - J. Russell Peltz

Marvin stopped him in their 2 other matches.

 

Ray Arcel said ,when Duran moved to welter,"he can still make lightweight, but he likes to eat".

 

True enough. But we're left with the fact that Toney's record at 175 isn't great, his 160 run is his best but he probably outgrew that naturally, and even there included the Tiberi robbery farce, and at 168 he was outclassed by a great fighter. So his lazy slobbishness maybe effected him at his "natural" weights too. His successes at 190 and HW were better than what he did at 175. So HW was as good as place as any for him, assuming 160 was impossible and 168 became a genuine struggle.
(As an aside, I believe Roy Jones Jr, would have outclassed him at every weight anyway. He may have been aware of that)

Fair enough.

 

I must admit Toney's "comeback" years were impressive. To me, more so for the fact that he'd been in a wilderness or series of goin'-nowhere fights, than for the fact he was "above his natural" weight class.
I mean, in the 6 or 7 years prior to the Jirov & Holyfield fights in 2003, he really seemed like a has-been working his own minor circuit.