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sucracristo wrote:the whole dynamic is about to change. the other paper titlists were able to make enough $$
fighting guys their level in front of home crowds so as to not make a GGG fight worth the trouble.
GGG will soon have all the titles, setting up a bottleneck in the division, and will quickly grow
into probably the top ppv fighter, meaning nobody at middle will be able to make a fraction of
what they could make fighting GGG anymore, and everyone at 154 and 168 will also see him
as a much bigger payday than anyone else they could fight. GGG's problem will be walking away
from the sport before his skills fade. hagler and many boxers didn't come into the big money fights
until their last few years after being avoided early on. it's hard to walk away when your biggest
paydays and most visibility arrive just as your skills are fading.

Great comparison made here with Hagler and GGG but I think GGG has a better marketing model behind him and has had a meteoric rise in publicity over the last two years. Hagler spent his whole career fighting for respect and credibility. Sugar Ray stole a lot of Hagler's thunder back then and I don't think that Hagler was appropriately appreciated until years after retirement.

Though GGG's 33 years old, he's a young 33 and with advances in sports medicine and training, it won't be very surprising to see him continue to dominate into his late 30s. I just saw GGG's Apple commercial so it looks like he's starting to gain some looks from Madison Avenue as well.

It's a great comparison in regards to Hagler and GGG getting the tougher fights too late but I think Hagler would have killed to be in GGG's position right now. He's got out attention. Marvin didn't.

verballistic wrote:

digzee wrote:He's obsessed with sh1tting on GGG, most of the American posters are hypocrites, if GGG was American he would be as highly rated as Hagler no doubt.

I'm a GGG fan but putting his (thus far) less-than-stellar credentials on the same level as Hagler is abject lunacy:

http://boxrec.com/boxer/8684

I never said his credentials matched up to Hagler, I meant that if GGG was American he would be thought of a lot higher then he is.

verballistic wrote:Ill-informed wannabe fans who claim GGG is on the same level as Hagler were clearly NOT following the fight game when Hagler was still active in the mid-1980s and I have a hunch some of them were even born until after that and can only rely upon press clippings and old videos. Hagler's resume' of foes in the mid-1980s was a Who's Who of MW history.

http://boxrec.com/boxer/8684

i brought up hagler in this thread specifically talking about paydays at the end of a career.
i watched the hagler leonard fight at boston garden on the screen that night and was an
amateur at the time in my teens. your hunches are brainless and pointless.