Middleweight boxing champion Marvin Hagler dies at 66
Sugar Ray Leonard, left, battles "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, right, during a middleweight bout at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas on April 6, 1987. Leonard won the fight in a 12-round decision. By Dennis Romero "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, boxing's middleweight champion for most of the 1980s, died "unexpectedly" at home in New Hampshire, his wife, Kay Hagler, said Saturday on social media. He was 66. "Today unfortunately my beloved husband Marvelous Marvin passed away unexpectedly at his home here in New Hampshire," Kay Hagler said on her husband's Facebook fan page The cause of death was not disclosed. His official website on Saturday was dedicated to his memory. Born in 1954 in Newark, New Jersey, and raised outside Boston, the budding fighter got his first shot at the middleweight title in 1979 but was unsuccessful. Then, in 1980, he knocked out champion Alan Minter for the title he would keep through 1987. He successfully def...