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
Posted on 04/29/2021
By: Hector Franco
This upcoming weekend, one of boxing’s more underappreciated pugilists will be moving up the weight scale to join the middleweight division.
Two-time WBA junior middleweight champion Erislandy Lara (27-3-3, 15 KOs) will make his middleweight debut against New Jersey’s Thomas Lamanna (30-4-1, 12 KOs) for a vacant version of the WBA middleweight title.
Lara, 38, is just a couple of years from reaching 40. Meaning, the move to middleweight was likely an opportunity for the Cuban stylist to maximize any remaining opportunities that will be available to him in his career.
Throughout the years, Lara has been in some significant matches, most notably in July 2014, losing a controversial split decision to Canelo Alvarez. His last two noteworthy bouts came in 2018 and 2019.
The story of Maureen Shea, The Real Million Dollar Baby
She has been a fighter all her life and a boxer for over half of it. At 40, she wants Eddie Hearn to give her the world-title shot she deserves. Gavan Casey By Gavan Casey Thursday 29 Apr 2021, 11:59 PM Apr 29th 2021, 11:59 PM 24,377 Views 4 Comments
Maureen Shea (front) and Hilary Swank (background).
Image: Ed Mulholland (Shea) and PA Images (Swank). Graphic by Eoin Lúc Ó Ceallaigh
Maureen Shea (front) and Hilary Swank (background).
Image: Ed Mulholland (Shea) and PA Images (Swank). Graphic by Eoin Lúc Ó Ceallaigh
MAUREEN SHEA HAS been a fighter all her life and a boxer for more than half of it. With her dual heritage, she might have been born to do both.
3 Nowadays superheroes are everywhere, part of today’s pop culture. Many focused on keeping the planet safe from destruction either from a villain or other force. For Frank Cerio, a Southwestern Division Environmental Program Manager, inspiration came from the early 1990’s environmental superhero, Captain Planet.
The elemental warrior was summoned by the combined powers of a diverse team of “Planeteers” to defend earth from pollution.
“I wanted to be Captain Planet. Obviously without the green hair, blue skin and red spandex,” said the Canastota, N.Y. native. “All joking aside, growing up on a farm really instilled a sense of environmental stewardship through conservation, sustainability and restoration in me.”