Marvin Hagler

...boxing to the kind of popularity that it enjoyed in the 1980s, when Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Roberto Duran and Marvin Hagler were doing battle. It is a matchup that features the two best pound-for-pound fighters in boxing and...

In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Andre Ward, Mikkel Kessler, Las Vegas, Thomas Hearns, Felix Trinidad, and Floyd Mayweather

...WBA light middleweight title. The Cotto bout was as good as you will see; an encounter worthy of boxing's fab four, Leonard, Duran, Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns. You could drop Pacquiao and Mayweather into that quartet and not lose...

In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Roberto Duran, Freddie Roach, Davey Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard, WBA, and Tommy Hearns

...in 55 fights, gave the 30-year-old Pacquiao a title in a record-setting seventh weight class. "I've been around Muhammad Ali, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard," says Pacquiao's promoter, Bob Arum. "Manny Pacquiao is the best fighter I've...

In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Freddie Roach, Bob Arum, Kenny Bayless, WBO, and Steroid

...impact outside the ring as much as his achievements in it. "He's the best fighter I have ever seen and that includes Ali, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard," Bob Arum, his promoter, said. "Who would have believed that when he was fighting...

In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Bob Arum, Ricky Hatton, Ring magazine, Marco Antonio Barrera, WBO, and Las Vegas

...fight Mayweather and I want Mayweather," Roach said. Arum himself added: "I've promoted Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, and Manny Pacquiao is the best fighter I have ever seen." Hall of Fame trainer Emanuel Steward said...

In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather Jr, Miguel Cotto, Freddie Roach, Emanuel Steward, Ricky Hatton, Sugar Ray Leonard, Logical next step, Kenny Bayless, and WBO

...to make a bold claim on behalf of his client: "I would go on record as saying that Manny is the greatest ever, better than Ali, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard." The only voice missing from the choir was that of Floyd Mayweather...

In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Floyd Mayweather, Miguel Cotto, Ricky Hatton, Freddie Roach, Las Vegas, Kenny Bayless, and MGM Grand

...to some of the all-time best. Promoter Bob Arum said after the fight that Pacquiao ranks right up there with Muhammad Ali, Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard. "I don't want to compare my achievements," Pacquiao said. "I don't...

In this article: Manny Pacquiao, Miguel Cotto, Freddie Roach, Sugar Ray Leonard, Muhammad Ali, WBO, and General Santos City

...a lot, but I will go on record, and I really believe that pacquiao is the best fighter I've ever seen, including Ali and Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler," promoter Bob Arum said, and for once there was no eye-rolling in the audience. Pacquiao,...

In this article: Miguel Cotto, Freddie Roach, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Bob Arum, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Kenny Bayless, and Shane Mosley

...two entire countries following their fighters, I really believe that on the night this will turn out to be a classic." Marvin Hagler v Thomas Hearns, at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, in April 1985, is regarded by many as the most...

In this article: Miguel Cotto, Manny Pacquiao, Bob Arum, Thomas Hearns, Las Vegas, IBF, World Boxing Organisation, WBA, and Ricky Hatton

...stuff - although spare a thought for Alarim Uysal, the Turk who fought Valuev back in 1997. Giving away 159lb - or a prime Marvin Hagler - he was stopped in the second round and hardly fought again. As Chagaev proved in 2007, however, the...

In this article: David Haye, Nikolay Valuev, Ruslan Chagaev, WBA, Monte Barrett, Evander Holyfield, Volkswagen, and Jenson Button