Comments Thread For: Marvin Hagler Was a Terror For British Opponents

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The war cry: "The British are coming," never held any fears for Marvelous Marvin Hagler who dispatched three true Brits in his illustrious sixty seven fight career, during which he was undisputed middleweight champion from 1980-1987.

Southpaw Marvin, who at 5'9 inches tall, resembled a sawn off heavyweight, as fated to face much taller Englishmen. The first was lanky six foot tall Kevin Finnegan, the older brother of Chris who himself was a light heavyweight. Kevin who won the British and European middleweight titles and was no mug, was mugged! On March 4th 1978 he was stopped in the ninth round of bloody encounter at the Boston Garden. Only weeks later on May 13th at the same location, the same result but this time in two rounds less. Kevin had more than one hundred stitches knitted into his brows as a result of the two encounters. Marvin remembers with surprise that he came back for a second dose and how damned tough he was.
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What happened after Hagler stopped Alan Minter upset a lot British fans even more than Minter losing. It was a shameful night for us, to be sure.

Minter, Sibson and Finnegan were exceptionally good fighters. But Minter had that scar tissue over his eyes which troubled him in almost every fight, and all 3 had the miss fortune to be around at the same time as one of the greatest middleweight champs in the history of the sport.