Thomas Hearns On A Possible Rematch With Marvin Hagler: “I Really Tried!”
“There’s got to be a way!” the legendary Thomas Hearns speaking in the ring after making history and trying to get a rematch with either Marvin Hagler or Sugar Ray Leonard.
“There’s got to be a way!” the legendary Thomas Hearns speaking in the ring after making history and trying to get a rematch with either Marvin Hagler or Sugar Ray Leonard.
It’s so much tougher to keep track of who the world champions are these days. With multiple belts, so many weight classes, interim champions, champions in recess, and with the majority of the sport’s big names fighting less and less frequently today, it’s a tough job for even the boxing junkies to readily and easily list the current champions at each weight; or to be able to state with conviction who the best is at each weight.
As fight fans know all too well, the great, the beloved Marvelous Marvin Hagler passed away in 2021, at the far too young age of just 66.
Yesterday was, as you, of course, know, the Fourth of July. Independence Day. A huge date in American history. And in boxing history.
Today, had he lived, had he not been so cruelly taken from us and, above all, his loved ones, Marvelous Marvin Hagler would be celebrating his 69th birthday.
The 1980s sure gave fight fans, boxing fans (MMA not yet a thing) some truly great action. Indeed, though older boxing fans will point to the 1950s as the true golden age, with less old fans pointing to the 1970s in naming that decade as the one that gave the sport its greatest and finest fights, for many fans the 1980s was it.
It took place 36 years ago today in Las Vegas: Sugar Ray Leonard Vs. Marvelous Marvin Hagler. The Super Fight. Fans all over the world have watched this fight to death, over and over ever since Leonard had his hand raised at the conclusion of those 12 engrossing rounds.
Larry Holmes and Marvin Hagler: two honest to goodness blue-collar fighters who came up the hard way and became toughened in spirit and desire as a result.
It must have been a terrifying thing, climbing into the ring to face an at-his-peak Marvin Hagler. From the years 1979 to 1985, Hagler was all-but unbeatable.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler’s career at world title level began with a nasty taste being left in his mouth, while the very last world title fight Hagler had left an even nastier, even more bitter taste in his mouth.