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(L-R) – Terlambat, great Marvelous Marvin Hagler, his grandson James Jr., and son James

BOSTON (Februari 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, Jr., 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, Rocky Marciano, 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)."


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(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 atau 4. He didn’t want anybody in his family to go through what he did in the Sugar Ray Leonard fight. Ayah saya (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.”

James (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.

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James Hagler, Jr. sedang beraksi


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, mengatakan, “I met Muhammad Ali’s grandson (Nico Walsh). I’d love to fight him someday.”

Fighter Locker’s growing stable of gifted boxers also includes California super flyweight Rocco “So Cal Kid” Santomauro (21-1, 6 Biaya), New York’s ABF American West super lightweight Ray Jay “The Destroyer” Bermudez (16-0, 11 Biaya), Connecticut’s ABF USA super welterweight Jimmy “Quiet Storm” Williams (18-5-2, 6 Biaya), Colorado’s ABF American West super middleweight champion “The Amazing” Shawn McCalman (10-0, 6 Biaya), Massachusetts super lightweight Adrian “Tonka” Sosa (12-0, 9 Biaya), Florida super bantamweight Daniel “The Dedication” Bailey, Jr. (10-0, 5 Biaya), Massachusetts featherweight Troy Anderson, Jr. (4-0, 2 Biaya), 2-time Brazilian Olympian & 2016 Olympic silver medalist Yuberjen Martinez, Brazilian Olympian Jorge Vivas, 2-time Dominican Olympian, lightweight Leonel de los Santos (5-0, 5 Biaya), Dominican cruiserweight Roki “Rocky” Berroa (2-0, 1 KO), Dominican super welterweight Juan Solano Santos (1-0, 1 KO), Dominican featherweight Orlando Perez Zapata (10-0, 8 Biaya), Dominican lightweight Isaelin Florian Henriguez (8-1, 4 Biaya), Florida light heavyweight Robert Daniels, Jr. (6-0, 5 Biaya), Irish light heavyweight Tommy “The Kid” O’Toole (3-0, 2 Biaya), Texas super lightweight Miranda “La Alacrana” Reyes (5-1-1, 2 Biaya), Massachusetts super featherweight Alex Rivera (3-0, 2 KO), Kansas brothers, welterweight Marcus (3-0, 3 Biaya) and super lightweight Marcell (1-0), and Utah brothers, ABF American West lightweight champion Ignacio Chairez (9-0-1, 5 Biaya) and lightweight Gabriel Chairez (4-0-1, 2 Biaya).

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Fighter Locker uses four creative steps because it believes in “the foundation is everything”: 1. wisely conceived, 2. creatively restrained, 3. Proudly judged, 4. sharply targeted.
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A remarkable boxing journey like no other 1972 Peraih medali emas Olimpiade “Gula Pasir” Ray Seales

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(Ray Seales is in the front row, second in from the left)



COLORADO SPRINGS, Putaran. (Bulan April 9, 2020) — Imagine being the lone boxer from your country to capture an Olympic gold medal, only days after the infamous Munich massacre. Now imagine also having won a remarkable 338 dari 350 pertandingan amatir, having fought a trilogy as a professional with “Menakjubkan” Marvin Hagler, being declared legally blind in both eyes (having entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. pickup a six-figure medical bill), regaining sight in one eye, then working as a teacher of autistic students for 17 tahun.

“Gula Pasir” Ray Seales has truly lived a surreal life, to say the least, and he’s still involved in boxing at the age of 67, as a successful coach of amateur boxers in Indianapolis.

Born in Saint Croix, DIRI KITA. Virgin Island as one of eight children in a family whose father was a boxer there as a member of the U.S. Army team, Seales started boxing at the age of nine. “I have three brothers and we always beat the crap out of each other,” he spoke about his start in boxing. “Learning how to box, untukku, was all about fighting to be the first to eat. I had gotten hit in my left eye playing dodgeball and my uncle, who was stationed at Ft. Lewis (di Tacoma, WA), told my mother there was a special doctor there who could help with my eye. My father was stationed all over and in 1964, when I was 12, my mother moved us to Tacoma, Washington.

“I had boxing in my system. I went with my brothers to the Downtown Tacoma Boys Club, which was only one block from our home, and my mother could watch me walk from our house to the gym and back. I was the first from there to win a Golden Gloves title. I wanted to be a winner and finished with 14 (juara) jackets. I couldn’t speak English. I knew Spanish and spoke Spanish and English together. The first word I said in English was box. We used to fight three or four times a day and we built the Tacoma Boxing Club. I went on to have a 338-12 amateur record and I’ve been in boxing ever since.”

Seales developed into a champion, taking top honors at the 1971 National AAU and 1972 National Golden Gloves championships. Pada usia 19, Seales enlisted in the U.S. Angkatan Udara, but his mother made some calls so Ray would be able to compete in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Jerman.

She succeeded and the rest, seperti yang mereka katakan, is history. And when he came home from the Olympics, he was told that there was no need for him to report to the U.S. Angkatan Udara, because he had done enough in terms of service as the only American boxer to win a gold medal.

Itu 1972 Olimpiade, akan tetapi, was overshadowed by the killing of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches, as well as a West German police officer at the Olympic Village by terrorists on Black September.

“I had just turned 20,” Seales remembered. “Boxing was heavy when we went there. Some of my family, my coach from Tacoma, and Tacoma teammate (and 2-time U.S. Olimpiade)Davey Armstrong were in Germany. I didn’t know anything at first. I had to get the attention of my parents to let them know not to go there, because there were terrorists with sub-machine guns in the Olympic Village. I was the only American boxer left to fight.”

Seales defeated Bulgarian Angjei Anghhelov, 5-0, in the light welterweight championship to capture an Olympic gold medal, the only member of the U.S. team to do so. His teammates included Armstrong, Duane Bobick, and Olympic bronze medalists Jesse Valdez, Marvin Johnson dan Ricardo Carreras.

Sugar Ray Seales’s dedication to USA Boxing is second to none,” tersebut Chris Cugliari, USA Boxing Alumni Director. “His pride, patriotism, and devotion to helping our next generation of champions is what makes him such an inspiring figure.”


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Seales turned pro in 1973, winning an 8-round unanimous decision over Gonzalo Rodriguez di Tacoma. “Sugarman” memenangkannya yang pertama 21 perkelahian pro, until he lost a 10-round decision to 14-0 middleweight prospect and future Hall of Famer Marvin Hagler. Dua perkelahian kemudian, Seales fought Hagler in Tacoma to a 10-round draw (99-99, 99-99, 98-96).

“Everybody wanted a shot at the Olympic gold medalist,” Seales explained.” I went to Boston and we fought in a TV studio (WNAC). It was freezing in there. I was shivering when I went into the ring, Marvin came out dripping sweat. I knew I was losing after seeing that, but I hung with him and went the distance (10 putaran). I was having management problems and three months later I fought Hagler again, only this time at home in Tacoma. I beat him but it ended in a 10-round draw. He knows I beat him!”

Seales completed his trilogy with Hagler, but it was five years later, when Hagler was 42-2-1 and avoided by most of the world’s top middleweights. “I was the USBA (United States Boxing Association) and North American Boxing Federation (NABF) middleweight champion and Hagler needed to win a title to get a world title shot,” Seales noted. “I lost our third fight in the first round, but that’s the only thing shown on television in our three fights. We were two left-handers, but he switched to right-handed, and he caught me with a hook. I got paid and they bought him a world title fight.”

Seales has coached two different amateur teams in Indianapolis during the past 11 tahun, kemenangan 10 Golden Gloves team championships, and he’s still in charge in Indy of Team IBG.

After he retired in 1984 after suffering detached retinas in both eyes, Seales was introduced in Las Vegas to Sammy Davis, Jr. (digambarkan di bawah), who paid Seales’ $100,000 medical bill for his damaged eyes. Davis had lost his left eye in a 1952 car accident



“I’m a teacher,” Seales concluded. “I see the way that so many boxers want to fight likeFloyd Mayweather. Their head is tilted, they can’t throw a jab. I teach them to have the right foot behind the left (for a right-handed boxer), and to walk in straight, not tilted or peaking. Heel toe, heel toe every time you pivot is your stance.

“My advice for the boxers who hope to compete in the 2020 Olympics is to focus on what you’re doing and listen to how to get it done. What I really want to do is to coach the USA Olympic Boxing Team 2024.”

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THOMAS HEARNS HEADLINES STAR-LADEN CLASS OF INDUCTEES INTO NEVADA BOXING HALL OF FAME

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Spinks brothers, Michael Carbajal, Erik Morales and Salvador Sanchez are also among the greats to be honored Agustus. 12 at Caesars Palace.
LAS VEGAS – Mantan juara dunia Thomas Hearns, yang bersama dengan Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler dan Roberto Duran dominated boxing in the 1980s and became known collectively as “The Four Kings,” headlines a 14-person class of inductees into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, Hall CEO/president Michelle Corrales-Lewis announced Wednesday.
Hearns was chosen in the non-Nevada resident boxer category, along with Michael Spinks, Erik Morales, Michael Carbajal, women’s boxing star Lucia Rijker and Salvador Sanchez. Elected in the Nevada resident boxer category was Ken Norton, Leon Spinks and Richie Sandoval.
Chosen in the non-boxer category were referee Davey Pearl, public relations specialist Debbie Munch, promoter Mel Greb, trainer/cut man Rafael Garcia and Nevada Athletic Commission chair Dr. Elias Ghanem.
Norton, Sanchez, Greb and Ghanem will be inducted posthumously.
The members of the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame’s star-studded fifth-induction class will be honored at a gala dinner at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on Hari Sabtu, Agustus. 12. Ticket will be released Thursday, February 16th at 12pm on NVBHOF.com .
“We are very proud of this class of inductees, and it contains some of the greatest fighters who ever lived,” Corrales-Lewis said. “I’m looking forward to our gala dinner when we can honor these richly deserving people and allow their fans to say hello.”
Hearns was one of the standouts during the 1980s and participated in a series of great bouts in Las Vegas with Leonard, Hagler and Duran. Nya 1985 bout with Hagler at Caesars Palace is still regarded by many as the greatest fight in boxing history.
The Spinks brothers, Michael and Leon, become the first set of brothers inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame. Both won gold medals for the U.S. pada 1976 Olympics in Montreal and then went on to win world titles in the pros.
Norton, known primarily for a series of close bouts with the legendary Muhammad Ali, also competed in one of the great heavyweight title bouts ever. He lost the WBC title by a razor-thin decision to Larry Holmes in 1978, among the finest heavyweight championship fights ever held.
Pearl was among the best referees of all-time and worked more than 70 championship bouts. He was the referee for both Leon Spinks’ teramat 1978 upset of Ali as well as for Leonard’s dramatic 14th-round knockout of Hearns in 1981.
The Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame is an IRS 501 (c)3 charity and all donations are tax deductible. The Hall’s charitable contributions over the five years since its formation have helped boxers in need and boxing-related charities. Donations are welcome.
The Hall was founded in 2013 by noted boxing broadcaster Rich Marotta.
Untuk informasi lebih lanjut, phone 702-3NVBHOF, atau 702-368-2463.
BIOGRAPHIES OF THE NEW HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
Michael Carbajal – Best known as the first junior flyweight to earn a $1 million purse, Carbajal won world titles at junior flyweight and flyweight. Dikenal sebagai “Little Hands of Stone” for his punching power, Carbajal was 49-4 dengan 33 Biaya.
His rivalry with Humberto “Kecil mungil” Gonzalez was one of the best of the early 1990s and their 1993 fight was The Ring Magazine Fight of the Year. Di 2004, The Ring named Carbajal as the best junior flyweight in history.
Dia 98-10 as an amateur and won a silver medal at the 1988 Olimpiade di Seoul, Korea Selatan.
Thomas Hearns – Hearns, 58, won recognized world titles at welterweight, Super welter, menengah, super middleweight and light heavyweight during a career in which he went 61-5-1 dengan 48 Biaya.
He’s most remembered for his savage three-round battle with Hagler in 1985, but he participated in many of the decade’s biggest and most electric bouts. He fought in Las Vegas 16 kali, akan 11-4-1 dengan sembilan KO.
Erik Morales – One of the most exciting fighters of the early part of the 2000s, Morales is best known for his series of outstanding fights with arch rival Marco Antonio Barrera. Morales went 52-9 dengan 36 knockouts but is best known for his trilogy with Barrera, two of which were named Ring Fight of the year.
Morales won major world titles at super bantamweight, kelas bulu, super featherweight and super lightweight, becoming the first Mexican born fighter to win titles in four weight classes.
He also engaged in a spectacular trilogy with Manny Pacquiao, beating him in the first and dropping the last two.
Ken Norton – Though he was the heavyweight champion before losing his belt to Larry Holmes in one of the great title bouts ever, Norton was best known for his three fights with the legendary Muhammad Ali. Norton defeated Ali in 1973 in San Diego in their first bout, breaking Ali’s jaw.
Ali won the two subsequent bouts, termasuk 1976 match at Yankee Stadium for the title. Some observers believe Norton deserved to win all three fights.
The Holmes fight was sensational and the two men stood in the center of the ring at Caesars and slugged it out in the 15th dan babak final.
Lucia Rijker – Rijker is regarded as one of, if not the best, women boxers in history. She was 17-0 dengan 14 knockouts in boxing and was 37-0-1 dengan 25 knockouts as a kick boxer.
In her boxing career, she scored dominant wins over the likes of Jane Couch, Marcela Acuna and Chevelle Hallback.
She later appeared in the Oscar-winning film, “Million Dollar Baby.“
Salvador Sanchez – Sanchez tragically died in an auto accident in Mexico at just 23 tua tahun, robbing the world of one of the elite fighters in history well before his time. Sanchez was 44-1-1 dengan 32 knockouts and was the lineal featherweight champion from 1980 until his death in 1982.
He won the title by knocking out Danny “little Red” Lopez, but is best known for a dominating eighth-round stoppage of Wilfredo Gomez. Gomez was 33-0 dengan 32 knockouts but was no match for Sanchez.
Richie Sandoval – Sandoval held the bantamweight title for two years, but his career, as great as it was, is a question of what might have been. Dia adalah anggota dari 1980 DIRI KITA. Olympic boxing team, but he lost his chance at a medal when President Carter decided to boycott the Games in Moscow.
Sandoval won the first 29 fights of his pro career, memeras 17 KO, and beat the great Jeff Chandler for the bantamweight belt.
But tragically, Sandoval suffered serious boxing related injuries in a 1986 bout with Gaby Canizales and was forced to retire.
Leon Spinks – Spinks is most known for upsetting Muhammad Ali in 1978 in just his eighth pro fight to win the heavyweight championship. He lost the title in a rematch and failed in two other attempts to win a title. He was stopped by Larry Holmes in a heavyweight title fight in 1981 and lost a cruiserweight title challenge in Reno to Dwight Muhammad Qawi in 1986.
A colorful figure known as “Neon” Leon, he was an acclaimed amateur who was 178-7 dengan 133 KOs and the light heavyweight gold at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal.
He finished his professional career with a 26-17-3 mark and 14 Biaya.
Michael Spinks – Spinks was 31-1 in his career and won both the light heavyweight and heavyweight titles. He moved up from light heavyweight to defeat Larry Holmes at the Riviera in 1985, denying Holmes the opportunity to go 49-0 and match Rocky Marciano’s record.
He won the light heavyweight title in his 17th pro fight in 1981 at the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas when he bested the much more experienced Eddie Mustafa Muhammad. Spinks held the light heavyweight title for four years, before giving it up to move to heavyweight to fight Holmes.
A 1976 Peraih medali emas Olimpiade, Spinks‘ only pro loss came in his final fight when he was knocked out by Mike Tyson in a bout for the undisputed heavyweight title.
NON-BOXER INDUCTEE BIOGRAPHIES
Rafael Garcia – Garcia, 87, is best known for his cap he wears festooned with pins and for working as Floyd Mayweather’s hand wrapper. But he had a long career as both a cut man and a trainer and was outstanding at both. He worked with elite fighters such as Mayweather, Roberto Duran, Alexis Arguello and Wilfredo Gomez.
Dr. Elias Ghanem – Ghanem as the long-time chairman of the Nevada Athletic Commission, and was responsible for helping it to earn the moniker, “The greatest commission in the world.”
Ghanem, a physician whose patients once included Elvis Presley, played a key role in the hearings after Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield, and also was instrumental in bringing the Oscar De La Hoya-Felix Trinidad bout to Las Vegas in 1999.
Mel Greb – Dikenal sebagai “The father of professional boxing in Southern Nevada,” Greb was a promoter and matchmaker who first brought Muhammad Ali to Nevada. Then known as Cassius Clay, Greb promoted Ali’s seventh pro fight in 1961. That week, he introduced Ali to wrestler “Gorgeous” George, and Ali patterned himself after George in many ways.
Greb died in 1996 di 75 tua tahun.
Debbie Munch – Caesars Palace in Las Vegas was a legendary host for many of boxing’s biggest fights in the 1980s and early 1990s, and Munch, a public relations expert, was instrumental in it.
She was widely respected by promoters, boxers and the media and helped many journalists immeasurably with their boxing coverage.
Davey Pearl – Pearl was small of stature, but was a giant as a referee. He worked more than 70 world title bouts, including Muhammad Ali-Leon Spinks and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns.
Pearl was also a highly regarded judge.
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Marvin Hagler Jr. to take on Ray Leonard Jr. April 8, 2017 di Atlantic City

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30 years to the day of their Fathers’ memorable fight
Atlantic City, NJ (Mei 13, 2015) – Then April 8, 2017, Feldman Brothers, Ritesh Parikh and former Heavyweight champion of the world, Larry Holmes will present a special night that will feature a bout 30 tahun dalam pembuatan.
Marvin Hagler Jr. and Ray Leonard Jr. will square off in a battle for legacy in a contest that will come exactly 30 years after the Father’s squared off in a memorable fight.
The third man in the ring will be the same referee that officiated Leonard Sr’s win over Hagler Sr. That being Richard Steele.

The event will distributed worldwide live on Pay-Per-View.
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MARET LEGENDARIS MELALUI DEKADE - SHOWTIME SPORTS® MELANJUTKAN PERAYAAN 30 TAHUN SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING®

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Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Thomas Hearns, Felix Trinidad, Ricardo Lopez, George Foreman & Lebih Banyak Dipamerkan Pada Bulan Maret

 

Klik DISINI Untuk Melihat Kembali Beberapa Momen Legendaris Di SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING: http://s.sho.com/1RkA3CE

 

NEW YORK (Bulan Maret 2, 2016) - SHOWTIME Olahraga meluncurkan angsuran ketiganya sebagai penghormatan selama setahun 30 years of SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING di bulan Maret dengan "Legends".

 

Bulan ini akan disorot oleh legenda Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Felix Trinidad, Ricardo “Finito” Lopez dan George Foreman. Tujuh dari pertarungan yang paling tak terlupakan dan penting dari legenda ini - beberapa di antaranya jarang ditayangkan ulang sejak presentasi langsung mereka - tersedia sekarang di platform on demand jaringan dan akan mengudara pada "Throwback Thursday"pada bulan Maret di 10 p.m. DAN/PT pada SHOWTIME EXTREME.

 

Itu Hari Kamis, Bulan Maret 10 presentasi Marvin Hagler vs.. John Mugabi mengudara dengan tepat 30 tahun setelah kemenangan terakhir dari karier Hall of Fame Hagler pada bulan Maret 10, 1986. Hagler vs.. Mugabi adalah acara utama pertama yang ditayangkan di SHOWTIME®.

 

Perkelahian klasik, yang juga tersedia pada SHOWTIME ON DEMAND®, SHOWTIME kapan saja® dan melalui layanan streaming mandiri jaringan, akan dibungkus dengan konteks singkat dan komentar dari pembawa acara SHOWTIME Sports Brian Custer.

 

Di bawah ini adalah jadwal penayangan perdana SHO EXTREME untuk bulan Maret:

  • Hari Esok, Hari Kamis, Bulan Maret 3: Terry Norris vs.. Sugar Ray Leonard
  • Hari Kamis, Bulan Maret 10: Marvin Hagler vs. John Mugabi
  • Hari Kamis, Bulan Maret 17: Felix Trinidad vs. David Reid
  • Hari Kamis, Bulan Maret 24: Ricardo Lopez vs. Rosendo Alvarez II
  • Hari Kamis, Bulan Maret 31: Iran Barkley vs. Thomas Hearns Saya, George Foreman vs. Gerry Cooney (10:15 p.m. DAN/PT), Gerald McClellan vs. Julian Jackson I (10:30 p.m. ET / PT)

 

Dalam perayaan persaingan terbaik di SHOWTIME, lihat di bawah untuk kolom khusus dari analis ahli SHOWTIME Sports dan sejarawan tinju Steve Farhood.

 

LEGENDS

Oleh Steve Farhood

 

Tinju tanpa legenda akan seperti agama tanpa orang suci.

Tidak ada formula bagi seorang petarung untuk maju dari bintang menjadi superstar menjadi legenda. Prosesnya tergantung waktu, keadaan, dan terkadang hanya satu atau dua poin pada juri’ kartu-kartu.

Dan oh, ya: Ini membantu jika seorang pria benar-benar bisa bertarung.

Saat kita merayakan 30 tahun bertinju di SHOWTIME, kami fokus pada tema yang berbeda setiap bulan. Sepanjang Maret, temanya adalah Legenda.

Dalam 130 tahun dari John L. Sullivan ke Floyd Mayweather, tinju telah memberi kita apa yang olahraga lain tidak bisa berikan. Mempertimbangkan:

  • The Associated Press memilih Luis Firpo knockdown of Jack Dempsey sebagai momen olahraga terbesar di paruh pertama abad ke-20.
  • The Frazier-Ali "Fight Of The Century" in 1971 dengan mudah menjadi acara olahraga yang paling diantisipasi dalam sejarah.
  • Pertarungan Mayweather-Pacquiao tahun lalu menghasilkan lebih dari setengah miliar dolar — dalam satu malam!

Legenda dibuat oleh momen-momen besar … dan bagaimana mereka menanggapi momen-momen itu.

Pada SHOWTIME, kami telah menampilkan legenda selama tiga dekade. Berikut ini pandangan mereka yang akan berbagi sorotan di bulan Maret.

MARVIN HAGLER: Karena Vince Lombardi tidak mengatakannya dengan tepat, “Pengaturan waktu bukanlah segalanya, itu satu-satunya,Hagler seharusnya mengatakannya.

Hagler adalah petarung hebat jauh sebelum dia menjadi superstar, tapi tidak sampai dia melawan Roberto Duran, Thomas Hearns, dan Sugar Ray Leonard (tiga dari enam pertarungan terakhir Hagler) bahwa Marvin menjadi Luar Biasa.

Satu penampilan Hagler di SHOWTIME, yang kebetulan merupakan pertarungan pertama yang disiarkan di jaringan (Bulan Maret 1986), adalah kemenangan terakhir dalam karirnya. Tak terkalahkan 10 tahun, Hagler telah membuktikan dirinya sebagai salah satu kelas menengah terbesar dalam sejarah. Dan sementara dapat diperdebatkan di belakang bahwa pada usia 31, petarung kerah biru pamungkas sedikit melewati masa jayanya, banyak dari apa yang membuat Hagler istimewa diperlihatkan selama pembelaannya yang kejam terhadap penantangnya yang tak terkalahkan dan ganas, John Mugabi.

Hampir tiga dekade setelah pensiun, Hagler tetap menjadi kelas menengah saat ini dengan 160 pon diukur.

GULA RAY LEONARD: Jika Hagler mekar terlambat, Leonard adalah seorang superstar sebelum dia melemparkan satu pukulan sebagai seorang profesional.

Kembali di pertengahan tahun 70-an, itulah senyuman yang magnetis, medali emas olimpiade, dan paparan berulang di televisi prime time bisa dilakukan untuk seorang pejuang muda.

Sungguh ironis bahwa Leonard pada awalnya dipandang oleh beberapa orang sebagai ciptaan media yang dimanjakan. Faktanya, dia sekuat petarung bertabur bintang di awal tahun 80-an. Lebih baik, dia tetap menjadi petarung terbaik yang pernah saya bahas 38 tahun di pukulan tinju.

Penampilan Leonard di SHOWTIME adalah pertarungan kedua dari belakang dalam karirnya. Dalam memilih untuk mengakhiri PHK panjang lainnya, Sugar Ray, 34, memilih peraih gelar kelas welter super berusia 23 tahun, Terry Norris sebagai lawannya. Leonard turun dari 160 untuk 154 pound dan bertarung di Madison Square Garden untuk pertama kalinya.

Pertarungan itu berfungsi sebagai pengingat bahwa setidaknya di dunia pra-Bernard Hopkins, tinju adalah permainan anak muda.

FELIX TRINIDAD: Hanya ada tiga pejuang Hispanik yang menjadi superstar di AS tanpa berbicara bahasa Inggris. Yang pertama adalah Roberto Duran dari Panama. Yang kedua adalah Julio Cesar Chavez dari Meksiko.

Yang ketiga adalah Trinidad Puerto Riko.

Motto Trinidad mungkin juga demikian, “Jika Anda tidak bisa dari Amerika, lalu kalahkan Amerika. ”

Pons klasik dengan senyuman pramuka dan kepribadian yang ramah penggemar, Trinidad membuat namanya dengan mengalahkan empat AS. Olympians, Pernell Whitaker, Oscar De La Hoya (meskipun dengan keputusan yang buruk), David Reid, dan Fernando Vargas.

Tambahan Pula, Whitaker, De La Hoya, dan Reid semuanya adalah peraih medali emas.

Pertarungan yang akan kita bahas Bulan Maret 17 pada SHO EXTREME, Trinidad vs.. Reid, adalah penampilan ke-14 Trinidad dan penampilan terakhirnya di SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING dan SHOWTIME bayar-per-tayang.

Dari kayo pemenang gelar kelas welternya Maurice Blocker di 1993 melalui pertahanannya melawan Mahenge Zulu masuk 1998, 13 dari Trinidad 14 pertarungan disiarkan pada SHOWTIME. Dua belas dari pertarungan itu adalah kemenangan KO.

Di mana Trinidad sejajar dengan Wilfredo Gomez, Miguel Cotto, Carlos Ortiz, Wilfred Benitez, dan legenda lainnya dari Puerto Rico masih bisa diperdebatkan. Apa yang tidak bisa dibantah adalah bahwa "Tito" menghasilkan kegembiraan yang sama seperti petarung di jamannya.

RICARDO LOPEZ: Apa yang lebih kecil: kemungkinan bahwa strawweight (105 pon) menjadi bintang televisi Amerika atau petarung itu sendiri?

Tidak pernah ada juara dunia kelas jerami Amerika (atau bobot minimum). Kami hanya tidak menumbuhkan pejuang sebesar itu. Faktanya, sampai kemunculan Lopez dari Meksiko di awal tahun 90-an, sebagian besar penggemar tinju Amerika tidak dapat mengidentifikasi satu pun kelas jerami jika dipersenjatai dengan peta dunia dan serangkaian peringkat WBC.

Lopez sangat lengkap, sangat dominan, sangat sempurna secara teknis, itu dari 1994 ke '99, dia adalah inti dari program tinju SHOWTIME. Dia berkelahi 13 pertarungan berturut-turut di SHOWTIME CHAMPIONSHIP BOXING atau SHOWTIME Pay-Per-View, dan yang pertama 11 dari kontes itu adalah mempertahankan gelar kelas jerami.

Dan jika Anda berpikir orang-orang kecil tidak bisa meninju, dengan baik, ada beberapa kayo satu pukulan yang ditaburkan.

Lopez, yang pensiun dengan tanda 51-0-1, secara universal diakui sebagai yang terbaik sepanjang masa. Sayang sekali dia tidak pernah bertarung melawan Michael Carbajal dari Amerika di kelas terbang ringan. Apakah dia memenangkan pertarungan itu?, dia kemungkinan akan diakui sebagai salah satu dari dua atau tiga petarung Meksiko terhebat yang pernah ada.

Yang mengatakan banyak untuk seorang pejuang yang tidak pernah menghadapi lawan yang diakui oleh publik Amerika menonton.

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