Marvin Hagler

[wraymond]

RIP Marvin Hagler who beat every count except the last one died this weekend. Probably the best pound-for-pound boxer there ever was.

[FLYING BANANA]

RIP to yet another legend who has left us.

[xsport]

Originally Posted by wraymond

RIP Marvin Hagler who beat every count except the last one died this weekend. Probably the best pound-for-pound boxer there ever was.

roberto duran .. sugar ray ... and marvelous marvin. these were the years of real boxing and indeed a quality which spanned the heavyweights too. the likes of which we will never see again sadly.

[Sprinter]

Originally Posted by xsport

roberto duran .. sugar ray ... and marvelous marvin. these were the years of real boxing and indeed a quality which spanned the heavyweights too. the likes of which we will never see again sadly.

Not forgetting Thomas Hearns.

Out of the four of them Hagler was the best for me. He reminded me of those RockEm-SockEm robots.

R.I.P. Champ.

[wraymond]

Originally Posted by xsport

roberto duran .. sugar ray ... and marvelous marvin. these were the years of real boxing and indeed a quality which spanned the heavyweights too. the likes of which we will never see again sadly.

You mention Sugar Ray Robinson. All fighters are fearsome men but some are not nearly as brutal as they seem. Maybe a little tale will lift a veil on one of them. Randolph Turpin lifted Sugar Ray’s world champion crown to become Middleweight World Champion in 1951 (?).

A little bit before that, my uncle Alan was returning to his work at a lorry park. It was Boxing Day of all days. No bank holidays for him, he caught the local train as usual. With some mates he alighted and walked to the back of the train to cross over the rails as a short cut to the yard.

He didn’t see the express that hit him. Alan’s wife and nine children were devastated. The accident made the front page of the Daily Mirror and was seen by Turpin.

Shortly afterwards a huge Christmas hamper arrived with consoling wishes and every Boxing day for years after, for as long as Turpin could do it before his financial circumstances changed for the worst. Talk about a soft centre.

In the pic below Alan is the hero on the left, my mother next to him, her sister, then my father on the right, all on leave. A day out in Southport before returning to duties.

[VVC-Geeza]

Hagler v Calzaghe and Froch would have been interesting fights.


Regarding the greatest fighter ever.Only one candidate for me,Ali.He had the lot,inside and outside the ring.