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.
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.
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.
It’s anniversary time again for THE most argued about fight in all of boxing history: Sugar Ray Leonard WS12 Marvin Hagler.
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.
For those of us who have spent more than 20 years posting and participating in online boxing forums dating back to the late 1990s, when it comes to boxing history one thing is clear – some topics are timeless!
Marvin Nathaniel Hagler, for many the greatest, the toughest, the hardest middleweight in boxing history, today celebrates his 65th birthday. He looks almost the same today as he did when he was a rock-solid 160 pound terror, the man who ruled the world from 1980 to 1987 almost seeming to have defied the ageing process, yet it really was well over thirty years ago when Hagler last fought.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler is the featured boxer in this edition of the Top 5 Notable Wins series.
Marvelous Marvin Hagler was the undisputed middleweight world champion from September 27, 1980 until April 6, 1987.
Twelve letters: Hagler Hearns. Or six letters: The War. However you spell it out, the magnificent fight that took place 34 years ago today is in a category all by itself.
The most memorable and talked about fight of the last forty years took place 32 years ago today. It was of course on this day in April, 1987, when all-time greats Sugar Ray Leonard and Marvelous Marvin Hagler put it all on the line in Las Vegas; creating at the time the biggest-money fight of the pay-per-view era.