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| Marvelous Marvin Hagler passed away. |
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler, one of the four kings of boxing passed away on Saturday at the age of 66.
He passed away in his hometown of Bartlett, New Hampshire. The legendary former middleweight champion leaves behind his current wife Kay Guarrera, his former wife Bertha and his five children, Charelle, Celeste, James, Marvin, Jr. and Gentry. His brother Robbie Sims is a former middleweight boxer.
A Facebook post from his son James told that his dad was taken to a New Hampshire hospital after experiencing chest pains and difficulty breathing. TMZ reported that Hagler's family was notified four hours later that he had died.
Hagler was one of the "The Four Kings" of the 1980s along with Sugar Ray Leonard, Roberto Duran and Thomas Hearns. He is widely regarded to be not only arguably the greatest middleweight of all time but one of the greatest fighters, period, who ever lived.
Hagler was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1954. He reigned as the undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987, making twelve successful defenses of that title, and holds the highest knockout percentage of middleweight champions. He holds a 78% rating which means Marvelous Marvin can really take a man down quick.
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| A man who knocked your ass out fast. |
He trademark his name and legally certified it as Marvelous Marvin (Nathaniel) Hagler.
They said that Marvelous Marvin had a chin of iron because the blows didn't phase him. He holds the record of 67 (15 by points and 52 by KO) with 3 losses and 2 draws.
He grew up around the times of racial unrest in the country. He was spent his early years in Central Ward in Newark where his family endured the unrest in the city which lead to 26 deaths and $11 million in property damage. His family had to leave the violence to settle in the community of Brockton, Massachusetts.
In his teens, he learned how to box because he was bullied by a local gang. He took out the lead bully and knocked his ass out. The next day after he was roughed up he determined to become a boxer and told gym owners Pasquale (Pat) and Goody Petronelli, that he wanted to learn the skill and he was not leaving until he did.
So the Petronelli brothers trained him and managed him through the local circuit as an amateur. He would end up lying about his age to box in competitive rounds. He lied saying he was 16 but in actuality he was 14. But he ended getting the work done. He won his first bout at the AAU beating Terry Dobbs a former U.S. Marine.
He would complete the amateur circuit with 55 wins and 1 loss.
So he decided to join the World Boxing Association. The legends square off with the WBA. He was a top-ranked middleweight boxer for years before he fought for his title. He was told by Smoking Joe Frazier the rules of the game.
"You have three strikes against you, 'You're black, you're a southpaw and you're good."
He often put fear in his opponents. He would had to travel to the towns to square up. His first break came when he was offered on -- two weeks' notice -- a chance to square off against Willie "the Worm" Monroe.
Marvelous Marvin lost by decision. The fight was so good, The Worm said that you ready for a second bout. The second bout turned out to be the career boost for Marvelous Marvin. He knocked out Willie The Worm in a 12 round bout where he had a successful KO.
The third time he got Willie in the first two rounds.
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| Marvelous Marvin Hagler meets then president Ronald Reagan. |
He got his first title shot in '79 against Vito Antuofermo -- which got called a draw, despite many feeling Hagler had taken it. He got a 2nd shot at the title the following year ... this time against Alan Minter -- whom Hagler pounded into a 3rd round stoppage.
Year after year, Hagler successfully defended his title ... but one of the most brutal bouts to date ended up going down against Tommy Hearns in 1985, which got billed as "The War." It only went three rounds, but all of them were brutal ... especially that opening one, which is regarded as one of the most violent and action-packed to date.
Hagler's reign came to an end in 1987 against none other than boxing icon Sugar Ray Leonard, who came out of retirement for another shot at the title. They went all twelve rounds, and despite many saying Hagler got the better of SRL ... the latter was announced as the winner in a split decision. Granted, Leonard landed a higher percentage of punches.
Post-boxing, Hagler moved on to a career in movies ... in Italy no less. He notably starred in 'Indio' and 'Indio 2' as well as a few other action flicks. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1993.
It appears that the allegations of Marvelous Marvin getting a COVID-19 shot drove his former boxing rival Tommy Hearns making a baseless allegations about the vaccine. There is no official cause of death, which has not been officially revealed.
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