Hagler Look At This ****

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Marvin Hagler reminds me of Bernard Hopkins. A tough blue collar fighter who worked very hard to gain acceptence. Hagler was great to watch.

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He's the toughest, darkest suffabitch as well...

I read somewhere that Marvin was a loner growing up, and that he felt only animals could understand him! He loved animals and when he was growing up he spent all of his free time with animals, is this true?

Have you heard that he started boxing in his early teens only because he hated the world so much and needed to let out his aggression?

Also, is it true that as an amateur he always gave his birthdate as 23rd May 1952? But whilst world champion he produced a birth certificate which stated he was born on 23rd May 1954? He apparently lost to Tony Licata at the 1969 Golden Gloves on his 15th birthday (but everybody thought he was 17), he shouldn't of been able to compete in Golden Gloves below 17 but faked his birthdate. Another strange thing to come from that was that Licata had apparently had a prizefight the previous afternoon under the name Tony Gardner, and to make matters even more confusing Licata had fought Tony Gardner at the Golden Gloves the day previous!

I even heard that Marvin himself doesn't truly know when he was born!?

Does anybody else have any more info on any of these matters?

He would isolate himself on the very tip of Cape Cod in deserted Provincetown, often in the dead of winter when it was windy and snowy and cold as hell. It would be him, the Petronellis, and heavyweight sparring partners would come, get hurt, and get replaced. He ran 15 miles along the beach, with combat boots on, half of it backwards. He refused to allow his wife and kids to see him.

Apparently there was a piece about Hagler once where they showed him with his pet pigeons, and he said he loved them, and added something like that he goes up on the roof to be alone with his pigeons when the world doesn't make sense.

"Marvin Hagler's was a career carved out of discipline and dedication. When he was at his menacing peak as undisputed world middleweight champion, he trained in a remote beach hotel near Cape Cod. When his workouts were over, and it wasn't time to eat, sleep or study a video of himself in training or his opponent in a fight, it was said he sat for hours at his window, relentlessly contemplating the ocean."

Peter Arnold (Lord of the Rings, 1998)

I'm from Massachusetts and Hagler is my all-time favorite boxer (yeah, even over Rocky). The only thing I ever knew about his training routine was that he would go to Provincetown in the dead of winter to train. He holed up in a local hotel and wouldn't even allow his wife to visit him. He said it made him tougher and angrier. There are a lot of guys holding hands with each other in Provincetown, bet they didn't go near Marvelous Marvin.

I don't know it anyone remembers Doug DeWitt, but he was one of Haglers sparring partners when he was 16 to 17 yrs old. And he said Hagler trained even harder before he was Champion then when after he became champion. DeWitt stated that Hagler used to run with big heavy boots on, and that he ran at an amazing pace to have boots on. And in sparring sessions, eveyone got the same treatment even Robbie Sims his brother came out with a bloody nose or busted lip. Hagler would punish all his sparring partners. DeWitt even said Hagler would Chant out loud when doing roadwork in the pre-dawn hours on the beach like FULLY OBEL! GONNA CATCH HELL!! AT THE BELL!!!. Years later when DeWitt trained with Hagler during his reign, he said Hagler then ran in sneakers and not even at the same torrid pace as he did yrs earlier with heavy boots on. I guess the intensity he trained with took its toll on him later in his career.

anyway i guess he didnt like or trust white people at all for obvious reasons (untill he met goody petro and the team) and wasnt very athletic and didnt play basketball or football or anything and didnt have good shoes and or any guardians worth speaking of he didnt really go to school at all and boxing being a lonely sport i guess he stuck to the gym ...

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hagler is one of my favorites of all time. my dad wanted me and my lil bro to be hagler and hearns when we grew up. neever happened though since my dad dies before my brother was born.

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Marvin was a beast. Definently one of the greatest middleweights ever.

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