For everyone he will remain 'Marvelous', the Marvelous Marvin Hagler, ruler of the middleweight division from '80 to '87.
The passing of the American boxing champion, one of the greatest fighters in history, at the age of 66 came suddenly on Saturday evening, just as America was sitting in front of the television to watch him step into the ring. The news was announced by his wife, Kay, on the official Facebook page of the Fan Club of Hagler. Within a few minutes, thousands of comments arrived on social media, and videos of the most important meetings appeared online.
THE SPECTACULAR MEETING WITH THOMAS HEARNS
For almost ten years, Marvelous beat all his great opponents, from Roberto Duran to Thomas Hearns with whom, in '85, he gave life to one of the most exciting rounds ever, the first: it was three minutes in which the two boxers fought without pause, stringing together a series of hooks and counter hooks, jabs and counters, condensing in one round the blows that two boxers usually give each other in an entire match. The show was so extraordinary that it made you hope the gong would never come.
“I always wanted to be somebody,” he confessed in ’82 in an interview with Sports Illustrated. “In baseball,” he explained, “I wanted to play like Mickey Mantle or Willie Mays, in basketball I would have been Walt Frazier or Kareem. In boxing I wanted to be Floyd Patterson or Emile Griffith.” But in the end Marvin Nathaniel Hagler was himself, one of the greatest. He ended up legally changing his name to Marvelous.
THE STORY AND CAREER OF THE WONDERFUL
Born May 23, 54, raised in Newark, New Jersey, after the social riots of '67 that burned down many cities, his mother moved with her son to Brockton, Massachusetts. It is here, in the city of boxer Rocky Marciano, that Hagler learned to box, in the gym run by the Italian-American brothers Pat and Goody Petronelli. During the day Hagler worked in their construction site, for three dollars an hour, in the evening he trained. At 18, Hagler won his first title, that of national amateur champion. A few weeks later he turned professional. For years he trained isolated from the world, on the dunes of Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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In '79 he was stopped by the jury, which assigned a disputed draw in the challenge to Vito Antuofermo. A year later came the victory against Alan Minter, but it was the success over Hearns, at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, in front of 16 thousand spectators, that consecrated him to the world. In '87, against Sugar Ray Leonard, came the defeat that closed the career of Marvelous, who announced his retirement a year later. The balance was 62 victories in 67 matches, of which 52 by knockout, plus three losses and two draws. In '93 he entered the Boxing Hall of Fame. He lived his last years away from the spotlight, in his home in New Hampshire, where he died of causes not disclosed by his wife.
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