âA fitting tribute to a Brockton iconâ: Street to be named for late boxing middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler
By Travis Andersen Globe Staff,Updated May 4, 2021, 2:16 p.m.
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FILEâIn this April 15, 1985 file photo, Marvin Hagler celebrates after knocking out Thomas Hearns in Las Vegas to win the world middleweight championship. Hagler is being celebrated in his Massachusetts hometown with a street named in his honor to be named Marvin Hagler Drive. The Brockton City Council on Monday, April 26, 2021, approved a proposal by two councilors to name a currently under-construction street Marvin Hagler Drive.(AP Photo, File)Anonymous/Associated Press
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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.
Brockton to name street in honor of the late boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler Share Updated: 12:13 PM EDT Apr 28, 2021
Brockton to name street in honor of the late boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler Share Updated: 12:13 PM EDT Apr 28, 2021
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Show Transcript THE RANGERS. IF YOU NEVER SAW HIM FIGHT, YOU MISSED ONE OF THE GREATEST EFFORT GREATEST EVER, MARVIN HAGLER HAS DIED HIS WIFE POSTING THE NEWS ON FACEBOOK TODAY. HE DUCKED THE LIMELIGHT FROM SO MANY JOBS BUT HE COULD NOT DUCKED THE FINAL OPPONENT. HIS REIGN LASTED FROM 1980 TO 1987. IN 1985 AGAINST TOM’S HERDS, THIS FIGHT WAS ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING EIGHT MINUTES A BOX WILL EVER SEE. HAGLER WINNING BY KNOCKOUT IN THE THIRD ROUND. IT WAS ONE OF 67 PROFESSIONAL WINS. HA