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Back in 1969, a teenage and not-yet-Marvelous Marvin Hagler first laced up gloves and learned to box at the Petronelli Gym in Brockton, Massachusetts.
52 years later, the Brockton City Council voted unanimously to memorialize the late, great fighter with a street named in his honor: Marvin Hagler Drive.
Hagler, who died last month at the age of 66, moved to Brockton as a youth and launched his legendary career there. Long before he started his undisputed reign as a champion, before any of the legendary fights against his “Four Kings” rivals in the 1980’s... Hagler was just a kid who got the worst of a street fight, and walked into his local boxing gym to make sure it never happened again.