Hagler

IT WAS a relentless year, it really was, with so many fights and nights and miles and waits. The last boxing weekend of the year was no exception. On Friday, I went to Errol Johnson’s show at the Hangar in Wolverhampton. It was freezing,…

Boo these men!Photo: Getty ImagesYou always have to hope that the Sunday night game, or really any primetime NFL game, is a good one. Because when it’s bad, there’s just far too much dead time for Cris Collinsworth’s brain to drip out of…

Supreme sports writer Brian Doogan revealed how his fascination with the timeless Hagler vs Leonard rivalry led to him writing one of the best boxing books of recent years DARKNESS was Ray Leonard’s light during his…

What would have happened if these famous 10 fights had got the rematch they deserved? OBVIOUS rematches sometimes don’t happen, irrespective of the sense they make. Here are 10 that the public assumed would, yet they…

He might have beaten me up but I will always adore Marvelous Marvin Hagler, writes Tony Sibson FOR some reason, Marvin Hagler took a shine to me. He bashed me up in six rounds (in Worcester, Massachusetts in February,…

Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs boxing’s powers-that-be and white supremacy. By Springs Toledo “YOU’RE not welcome in here,” the bartender said. The bar was across the street from a truck stop in Moody, Alabama where the…

Thomas Hauser reviews Don Stradley’s new book, The War: Hagler-Hearns and Three Rounds for the Ages IT’S a line in boxing’s record book: April 15, 1985 – Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas Hearns at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas – KO…