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‘The Fight’, as it was named, was set for April 15, 1985 at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas. Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns went on a press tour in early 1985 to promote their bout, with Tommy predicting a third round knockout of Hagler. As much as I admired and respected Hearns, there was no […]

After his close call win over Roberto Duran on November 10, 1983, Marvin Hagler (who legally changed his name to Marvelous Marvin Hagler in 1982) signed to take on tough Juan Domingo Roldan on March 30, 1984 at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas. The bout was being broadcast live on HBO, and with no

When Hagler signed to fight to fight Roberto Duran, I found out where the closest place to my house was to watch the fight on closed-circuit. The Hyatt Hotel in Cherry Hill, New Jersey was about 6 miles from my house, and I decided to drive there a few weeks before the November 10th fight

Marvin Hagler traveled to Wembley Arena in London, England on Saturday, September 27, 1980 to challenge Alan Minter for his middleweight crown. I tuned in to catch the action on ABC’s Wide World of Sports, and was glad that I did. Marvin was aggressive from the opening bell, pressured Minter and dominated the entire bout.

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