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  • 40bill
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2014
    • 8451
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    Marvelous Marvin Hagler

    Dead at age 66.
    perhaps one of the best of all times.
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    • Matt Dillon
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      • Oct 2014
      • 49610
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      This got me to thinking about all the famous American boxers like Louis, Ali, Robinson, Johnson, Dempsey, Tyson and Marciano. In my opinion, Ali was indeed "the greatest". I believe, when in his prime, he could have defeated any of them.
      Philippians 4:11-4:13
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        • surveyor
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          • Oct 2014
          • 14474
          #3
          The Hagler - Hearns fight was one of the best I've ever seen. To the end, Hearns tried to play it off that Hagler was whuppin' him by constantly smiling at him, but Hagler was relentless.

          Outside of Sugar Ray Leonard, probably not a better middleweight out there at the time.
          Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

          Clint Eastwood
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            • Spiritof96
              Senior Member
              • Oct 2014
              • 13503
              #4
              Originally posted by Matt Dillon
              This got me to thinking about all the famous American boxers like Louis, Ali, Robinson, Johnson, Dempsey, Tyson and Marciano. In my opinion, Ali was indeed "the greatest". I believe, when in his prime, he could have defeated any of them.
              Tyson in his prime would be, "dangerous" to Ali, but peak Ali was... amazing.

              I would also have liked to see him fight, peak Bowe (underrated), Hollyfield, and Lewis. They are each so different and better than most of the guys Ali mowed through in his prime.
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                • surveyor
                  Administrator
                  • Oct 2014
                  • 14474
                  #5
                  Originally posted by Spiritof96

                  Tyson in his prime would be, "dangerous" to Ali, but peak Ali was... amazing.

                  I would also have liked to see him fight, peak Bowe (underrated), Hollyfield, and Lewis. They are each so different and better than most of the guys Ali mowed through in his prime.
                  Tyson's speed and power in his prime was a rare sight to see. Were Ali and Tyson both matched in their primes, Ali's prowess as a boxer would win out, I think.

                  What began to hamper Ali was the onset of arthritis in his hands by the time he fought Foreman.
                  Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

                  Clint Eastwood

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                    • Blue Heaven
                      Senior Member
                      • Oct 2014
                      • 6283
                      #6
                      Big Hagler fan back in the day. The War was a great fight. It's up there with the Ward-Gotti fight. I want my boxing like a Rocky movie. Those fights didn't disappoint. RIP Marvelous.
                      Isaiah 5:20

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