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.