Marvellous Marvin RIP

[poo at Paul's]

Apologies if I missed the thread on this, but news today or the seemingly shock death of ‘Marvellous’ Marvin Haggler.

Growing up in an era when boxing was so huge and seemingly less contrived as it can be nowadays, this guy was an unbelievable fighter, and his battle with Hitman Hearns was one of the most explosive fights I’ve ever seen! Epic stuff and a legendary fight along with a few others that I can recall decades later.

RIP Marvellous Marvin, a true heavyweight of boxing despite his 72.5kg!

Edited by poo at Paul's on Sunday 14th March 19:51

[mick987]

Great boxer, that fight with Hearn is one of the best fights I have ever seen.
RIP

[CeramicMX5ND2]

Watched a lot of boxing back in his day - Before all the pay-per-view nonsense we have now..

Only 66 and taken far too soon.. R.I.P Marvelous Marvin Hagler
Alan Minter sadly only passed away last September.., so hope he's resting peacefully too....

[cherryowen]

Sad news indeed

In that "golden" decade of boxing, that included Hearns, S-R Leonard and Duran, Hagler was by far my favourite

[Randy Winkman]

cherryowen said:

Sad news indeed

In that "golden" decade of boxing, that included Hearns, S-R Leonard and Duran, Hagler was by far my favourite

I'm 56 years old and try not to fall in the trap of saying that things were better in the old days. But boxing was better back then. Especially the middle-weights. Totally brilliant. I agree that Hagler was probably the best but SRL was a legend too.

[Murph7355]

Crikey.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Randy Winkman said:

cherryowen said:

Sad news indeed

In that "golden" decade of boxing, that included Hearns, S-R Leonard and Duran, Hagler was by far my favourite

I'm 56 years old and try not to fall in the trap of saying that things were better in the old days. But boxing was better back then. Especially the middle-weights. Totally brilliant. I agree that Hagler was probably the best but SRL was a legend too.

I'm 58. Love boxing now, but you're right about the middleweights back then. I loved the SR Leonard / Duran battles. Duran was just a street brawler, SRL was a cultured boxer, great clash of styles. And as said Hagler v Hearns.

[oddman]

Benn, Eubank and (my favourite) Graham in the same era

Great time for middleweight and great boxers

[biggbn]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I'm 58. Love boxing now, but you're right about the middleweights back then. I loved the SR Leonard / Duran battles. Duran was just a street brawler, SRL was a cultured boxer, great clash of styles. And as said Hagler v Hearns.

Duran was so much more than a street brawler, perhaps the greatest lightweight who ever laced them up. RIP Marvellous Marvin...and that was legally his name!!

[gaseous clay]

I missed that era but have watched the fights back. I still reckon this is a quote for the ages "It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you've been sleeping in silk pyjamas."

[biggbn]

gaseous clay said:

I missed that era but have watched the fights back. I still reckon this is a quote for the ages "It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you've been sleeping in silk pyjamas."

Used the same quote in the boxing thread!

[gaseous clay]

biggbn said:

gaseous clay said:

I missed that era but have watched the fights back. I still reckon this is a quote for the ages "It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you've been sleeping in silk pyjamas."

Used the same quote in the boxing thread!

I only saw it on twitter earlier but it struck a chord.

[DaveGrohl]

Sad news indeed. Those middleweight clashes were epic, fabulous era for boxing.

[Short Grain]

RIP,

66yrs Old and not exactly unfit! He was great to watch, along with Duran, SRL was my favourite though! Sorry Marvin!

[mick987]

oddman said:

Benn, Eubank and (my favourite) Graham in the same era

Great time for middleweight and great boxers

The above boxers were all good but to mention them in the same sentence as Hagler, Hearns, S-R Leonard and Duran is stretching it somewhat.

[Murph7355]

oddman said:

Benn, Eubank and (my favourite) Graham in the same era

Great time for middleweight and great boxers

Coming from Sheffield I always wanted Graham to win big. So nearly.

My one lasting memory of him was him getting knocked out and being out of it before he hit the floor against Julian Jackson.

He struck me as one of those boxers who was too "nice" in terms of finishing opponents off (Bruno the same).

Benn, Eubank and Collins were the pick from this side of the Atlantic in that era. Their fights were brutal. Edited to add, Watson was some boxer too.

Edited by Murph7355 on Monday 15th March 11:36

[TwigtheWonderkid]

biggbn said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I'm 58. Love boxing now, but you're right about the middleweights back then. I loved the SR Leonard / Duran battles. Duran was just a street brawler, SRL was a cultured boxer, great clash of styles. And as said Hagler v Hearns.

Duran was so much more than a street brawler, perhaps the greatest lightweight who ever laced them up. RIP Marvellous Marvin...and that was legally his name!!

I know a bit about Duran....I have a cat called Paws of Stone.

[poo at Paul's]

mick987 said:

oddman said:

Benn, Eubank and (my favourite) Graham in the same era

Great time for middleweight and great boxers

The above boxers were all good but to mention them in the same sentence as Hagler, Hearns, S-R Leonard and Duran is stretching it somewhat.

Maybe not? But the Benn Eubank fight was one of the ones I would put in the same category as the Marvin v Hitman one. Proper epic fight, no bullst, a proper fight.