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Nobody gave Sugar Ray Leonard a ghost of a chance. Not against undisputed middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who was coming off 12 consecutive successful defenses of his titles, 11 by ...
Pooch Hall lived in Brockton from third grade through college. Hall spoke with the Enterprise and reflected on how his ...
Benitez faced three of the four kings, losing by fifteenth round stoppage to Leonard in ’79, beating Duran by unanimous ...
The Untold Story of Marvin Hagler’s Battle for Glory” by Dave Wedge, a former Herald writer. The book, about Brockton’s ...
I n the late 1970S, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and House Speaker Tip O’Neill were two of the most powerful people in national ...
A 20-year-old Brockton man died in a shooting that injured another outside the BJ’s Wholesale Club in Dedham overnight on ...
"His full story's never been told," hard-hitting Brockton author Dave Wedge said of Marvelous Marvin Hagler. What Wedge ...
After suffering the first defeat of his career to Duran in 1980, Leonard avenged this in their rematch just a few months ...
Marvelous' Marvin Hagler played his part in one of the greatest generations of boxing history alongside Roberto Duran, Sugar ...
Brockton will unveil a statue of boxing legend Marvelous Marvin Hagler in a new park, on a street bearing his name, on Thursday, the city said in a press release.
BROCKTON – Marvelous Marvin Hagler's sister, Veronica Hagler-Bell, got a sneak peek at the new statue of her brother. Her verdict? "It's beautiful," she said. "It's a little short." The Brockton ...
The City of Brockton unveiled a $150,000 statue of former middleweight boxing champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler on Thursday in a park named after him, city officials said. “Brockton is known ...