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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
Apr 28, 2021
BROCKTON, Mass. (WBZ NewsRadio) The city of Brockton will be naming a street in honor of middleweight boxing champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
The Brockton Enterprise reports the Brockton City Council unanimously approved a proposal Monday night to name a street, being constructed between Main and Montello Streets, as Marvin Hagler Drive.
The new street will intersect with Petronelli Way, where a gym that Hagler trained at was located. The gym was owned by brothers Pat and Goody Petronelli, who trained and managed Hagler.
Hagler died last month at the age of 66. He was the undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987. He and his family moved to Brockton in the 1960s.
On Monday night, the order was unanimously approved by the city council. It s the council s intent to honor Mr. Hagler s boxing achievements and status as a Brockton icon, Thompson said.
The councilor said it s not common for the council to name new streets as he learned from the city clerk s office that it had been about 17 years since the council last did so.
Hagler, who was 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts in his career and the undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to April 6, 1987, died at the age of 66 in March. Hagler was born in Newark, New Jersey, and moved with his family to Brockton in the late 1960s. Some of his family members still live in Brockton today.
Brockton to name street in honour of the late Marvin Hagler
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 12:28 pm EDT
BROCKTON, Mass. Middleweight boxing champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler is being celebrated in his Massachusetts hometown with a street named in his honour.
The Brockton City Council on Monday approved a proposal by two councillors to name a currently under-construction street Marvin Hagler Drive, The Enterprise reported Wednesday.
Hagler, who died in March at age 66, finished his professional career with a 62-3-2 record with 52 knockouts.
The street will intersect Petronelli Way, the site of the gym where Hagler was trained and managed by the Petronelli brothers, Goody and Pat.