Brockton to name street in honor of the late Marvin Hagler
April 28, 2021
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FILE In this April 15, 1985 file photo, Marvin Hagler celebrates after knocking out Thomas Hearns in Las Vegas to win the world middleweight championship. Hagler is being celebrated in his Massachusetts hometown with a street named in his honor to be named Marvin Hagler Drive. The Brockton City Council on Monday, April 26, 2021, approved a proposal by two councilors to name a currently under-construction street Marvin Hagler Drive.Anonymous/AP
BROCKTON, Mass. (AP) Middleweight boxing champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler is being celebrated in his Massachusetts hometown with a street named in his honor.
On Monday night, the order was unanimously approved by the city council. It s the council s intent to honor Mr. Hagler s boxing achievements and status as a Brockton icon, Thompson said.
The councilor said it s not common for the council to name new streets as he learned from the city clerk s office that it had been about 17 years since the council last did so.
Hagler, who was 62-3-2 with 52 knockouts in his career and the undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to April 6, 1987, died at the age of 66 in March. Hagler was born in Newark, New Jersey, and moved with his family to Brockton in the late 1960s. Some of his family members still live in Brockton today.
Brockton to name street in honour of the late Marvin Hagler
by The Associated Press
Last Updated Apr 28, 2021 at 12:28 pm EDT
BROCKTON, Mass. Middleweight boxing champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler is being celebrated in his Massachusetts hometown with a street named in his honour.
The Brockton City Council on Monday approved a proposal by two councillors to name a currently under-construction street Marvin Hagler Drive, The Enterprise reported Wednesday.
Hagler, who died in March at age 66, finished his professional career with a 62-3-2 record with 52 knockouts.
The street will intersect Petronelli Way, the site of the gym where Hagler was trained and managed by the Petronelli brothers, Goody and Pat.
Boxing champ Marvelous Marvin Hagler gets street named after him
BROCKTON, Mass. Middleweight boxing champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler is being celebrated in his Massachusetts hometown with a street named in his honor.
The Brockton City Council on Monday approved a proposal by two councilors to name an under-construction street Marvin Hagler Drive, The Enterprise reported Wednesday.
The street will intersect Petronelli Way, the site of the gym where Hagler was trained and managed by the Petronelli brothers, Goody and Pat. Growing up as a kid in Brockton, Marvin Hagler was a legend, said Councilor Jeffrey Thompson, who made the proposal to name the street. I never had the pleasure to meet the champ, but I watched his legendary fights and spoke to people who knew him. The lesson that I took was that Marvin Hagler had an obsession with sharing his boxing talent and his determination with the world. He literally got punched in the face and kept moving forward.
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