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Marvin Hagler continued to fight often as the years decade of the seventies progressed. By late 1979, he had a record of 46-2-1, with 38 knockouts, when he signed to fight Vito Antuofermo, the Middleweight Champion. The fight would be held at Caesar’s Palace on November 30, 1979, and be the undercard bout to Sugar […]

Marvelous Marvin Hagler was born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler on May 23, 1954, and raised in the worst part of Newark, New Jersey. He dropped out of school at 14 to work in a factory to help his mother. After the riots of 1967 in Newark destroyed his tenement housing, his family moved to Brockton, Massachusetts

This is My List of my Top 10 All-Time Favorite Fights

This is My List of the Top 10 Fighters of All Time.

This is My List of the Top 10 All-Time Heavyweights.

This is the last in my series of blogs on one of my favorite all-time fighters, the great Sugar Ray Leonard. When I first became a boxing fan in the late 1970’s, Ray was becoming the face of the sport. His first championship shot against Wilfred Benitez on November 30, 1979 stands out as one

Sugar Ray Leonard announced his retirement in the ring at Madison Square Garden following his loss to Terry Norris on February 9, 1991. Over the coming years, he gave no indication of any intentions to make a comeback. The last thing on my mind was Ray returning to the ring as time passed, but in

After defeating Roberto Duran on December 7, 1989 rather easily, Sugar Ray Leonard’s career was put on hold because of the severe cut over his right eye. He needed plastic surgery to help it heal, then talked of a rematch with Marvin Hagler. Nothing came of that, and when Leonard wanted a third bout with

After barely escaping with a draw against Thomas Hearns on June `12, 1989, Sugar Ray Leonard agreed to fight Roberto Duran in his next bout. Duran had upset Iran Barkley in February to capture his middleweight belt, his fourth title in four different divisions. The third fight between both fighters was set for December 7,

After knocking out Donny Lalonde on November 7, 1998, Sugar Ray Leonard agreed to a rematch with Thomas Hearns. Even though Thomas had struggled in a decision over James Kinchen that same month, June 12, 1989 was the date set for Leonard-Hearns 2 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. I drove my 1985 Pontiac Firebird