45 Years Ago: When Marvelous Marvin Hagler Dropped A Decision To Bobby Watts And Realised He Could Never Trust The Judges
It’s one great, big understatement to say Marvin Hagler never trusted boxing judges, that he was never overly fond of them.… read full article “45 Years Ago: When Hagler Dropped A Decision To Watts…”
British boxing writer Colin Hart has been around the sport for decades, and he has sat at ringside at some of the biggest fights in history – Muhammad Ali-George Foreman, many of the fights fought by The Four Kings, and many, many more.… read full article “Colin Hart Says Leonard’s Epic Win Over Hagler “Surpassed Anything Ali Ever Did””
The recent news of how former IBF 154 pound champ Carlos Molina is aiming to bring back the 15 round fights (for one night at least, this in November), can get a fight fan thinking: what if the 15 round world title fight limit had not been demoted to 12 rounds?… read full article “Fights That Would Have Been Oh, So Different If They Had Been 12 Round Fights, Not 15 Round Fights”
Marvelous Marvin Hagler had been made to fight so hard, for so long, and he was determined to hold onto the world middleweight title for as long as he possibly could now that he’d finally won it.… read full article “40 Years Ago Today: Marvin Hagler’s Brutal Coronation”
Barry McGuigan, writing in his regular boxing column for The Mirror, makes his case for Marvelous Marvin Hagler being not only the greatest middleweight ever, but also a man who would have had too much for fellow legends Sugar Ray Robinson and Carlos Monzon.… read full article “Barry McGuigan Calls Hagler The Greatest Middleweight Ever; Would’ve Beaten Robinson, Monzon”
Wednesday, May 20, will be a night of boxing on ESPN2 when the network airs five consecutive hours of the sweet science featuring some of the sport’s most debated decisions. The action will begin at 7 p.m.… read full article “Boxing’s Most Debated Decisions to be shown on ESPN2 this Wednesday”
If the great Roberto Duran-Sugar Ray Leonard fight of June of 1980 wasn’t special enough, this titanic battle was the very first super-fight in the nine-fight series four legendary lower weight fighters would thril the planet with throughout the decade.… read full article “40 Years Ago And The Birth Of “The Four Kings””
Three-and-a-half decades ago today – April 15, 1985 – an epic fight, a slugfest, a war, took place. The date of April 15, 1985 is a most familiar one with fight fans of a certain age; all those who are old enough to have been able to tune in and watch the brutal eight-minute battle take place and fully comprehend how special, how very special the action was.… read full article “Hagler vs Hearns Hits 35”
It’s anniversary time again for THE most argued about fight in all of boxing history: Sugar Ray Leonard WS12 Marvin Hagler. It was 33 years ago today when Leonard pulled off his miracle win (many saying to this day Sugar’s win ranks as the finest boxing comeback of them all).… read full article “Leonard vs Hagler: The Most Re-Watched, Re-Scored Fight In History”
Are you, as a boxing junkie, feeling the pain of withdrawal symptoms yet? There are of course far more serious issues and problems to be dealt with during the ongoing coronavirus battle, and this article is in no way meant to be disparaging to the problem millions across the world are now facing.… read full article “With The Current Boxing Schedule As Thin As A Toothpick, What’s A Hardcore Fan To Do? Dig Deep Into The Archives”