(L-R) – 遲到, great Marvelous Marvin Hagler, his grandson James Jr., and son James
波士頓 (二月 15, 2022)– There are few family names in boxing, especially in New England, as universally revered as Hagler and Roach. They are part of boxing royalty.
There is a new connection as James Hagler, 小, the grandson of the late Hall of Famer Marvelous Marvin Hagler, has signed an exclusive managerial contract with Fighter Locker, owned and operated by the nephew of Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach, Boston-based Ryan Roach.
The plan is for Roach to have Hagler fight in Massachusetts, ideally in Brockton, the City of Champions in which Hagler as well as another Hall of Famer, 洛磯馬爾恰諾, fought out of during their professional careers.
“I was looking for a manager and read about Ryan,” Hagler said. “I looked him up online, talked with him, and met him last weekend for the first time. He is not a greedy person. By far, he offered me the best deal I have ever received. He really wants to help me. Ryan’s a cool dude. I feel good about signing with him.
“Fighting someday in Brockton and Boston means a lot to me, because of my grandfather’s background, and that’s one of the reasons I signed with Ryan. My mother and father are from that area, and I still have a lot of family living on both sides living there. I’ll be the third member of the Hagler family to fight in New England, joining my grandfather and uncle (Robbie Simms).”
(L-R) – Ryan Roach & James Hagler, JR.
“I’m excited to be managing James,” Roach commented. “Right away, I was interested in a fighter with the Hagler name. I spoke with James and he’s a good kid who is all in. He wants to prove himself on his own and I get that, because I want to make it on my own terms, not my last name. “We’re excited to get him fighting in New England. We’re going to do great things together. We plan on having him fight in Brockton, hopefully this summer, to bring boxing back to Brockton.”
The 31-year-old Hagler, who fights out of Atlanta, didn’t start boxing until he was 24. Why did he start so late?
“My grandfather didn’t want any of us (in the Hagler family) to box,” James explained. “I wanted to be a boxer since I was 3 或 4. He didn’t want anybody in his family to go through what he did in the Sugar Ray Leonard fight. 我的父親 (a boxing promoter in Atlanta) was an amateur boxer who fought in the Olympic Trials. He stopped boxing because my grandfather wouldn’t watch him fight. My father didn’t want to continue fighting.
“There’s a lot of pressure on me fighting because people expect me to be like my grandfather or want me to live up to the Hagler name. I feel good following in my grandfather’s footsteps. When guys fight me, it’s like their championship fight, because they want to say they beat a Hagler for bragging rights. I know that they will always have their best fight against me.”
詹姆斯 (2-1, 1 KO) had a relatively brief amateur career, fighting in Alabama and Georgia, and the southpaw made his pro debut December 14, 2019, in Ohio, when he stopped Michael Widmer in round one. He’s only had two fights since, winning one and losing the other, the latest this past November.
James Hagler, JR. 在行動
Hagler will fight as a super middleweight for now, but he intends to campaign as a middleweight in the same division his legendary grandfather owned for so many years. He does have a dream fight in mind, 話, “I met Muhammad Ali’s grandson (Nico Walsh). I’d love to fight him someday.”
Fighter Locker 越來越多的天才拳擊手還包括加州超級蠅量級 Rocco “So Cal Kid” Santomauro (21-1, 6 科斯), 紐約 ABF American West 超輕量級 Ray Jay “毀滅者” Bermudez (16-0, 11 科斯), 康涅狄格州 ABF USA 超中量級吉米“安靜風暴”威廉姆斯 (18-5-2, 6 科斯), 科羅拉多州 ABF 美國西部超中量級冠軍“神奇”肖恩·麥卡爾曼 (10-0, 6 科斯), 馬薩諸塞州超輕量級 Adrian “Tonka” Sosa (12-0, 9 科斯), Florida super bantamweight Daniel “The Dedication” Bailey, JR. (10-0, 5 科斯), 馬薩諸塞州羽量級特洛伊安德森, JR. (4-0, 2 科斯), 2-時間 巴西奧運選手 & 2016 奧運會銀牌得主 Yuberjen Martinez, 巴西奧運選手豪爾赫·維瓦斯, 2-time Dominican Olympian, 輕量級的萊昂內爾·德·洛斯桑托斯 (5-0, 5 科斯), 多米尼加重量級 Roki “Rocky” Berroa (2-0, 1 KO), 多米尼加超級次中量級胡安索拉諾桑托斯 (1-0, 1 KO), 多米尼加羽量級奧蘭多佩雷斯薩帕塔 (10-0, 8 科斯), 多米尼加輕量級 Isaelin Florian Henriguez (8-1, 4 科斯), 佛羅里達州輕重量級羅伯特丹尼爾斯, JR. (6-0, 5 科斯), 愛爾蘭輕重量級選手湯米“小子”奧圖爾 (3-0, 2 科斯), 德州超輕量級米蘭達“蝎子”國王隊 (5-1-1, 2 科斯), 馬薩諸塞州超輕量級亞歷克斯·里維拉 (3-0, 2 KO), 堪薩斯兄弟, 次中量級馬庫斯 (3-0, 3 科斯) 和超輕量級的 Marcell (1-0), 和猶他兄弟, ABF 美國西部輕量級冠軍 Ignacio Chairez (9-0-1, 5 科斯) 和輕量級的 Gabriel Chairez (4-0-1, 2 科斯).
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