The most dominant boxer to be stopped by a 'retiree'

Who ended Marvelous Marvin Hagler's career?

When it comes to professional boxing in the lower divisions, fans can always point to Marvelous Marvin Huggles as one of their favorites. The middleweight contender who impressed with countless victories, but will go down in history with one of only three losses. A loss that ended his career.

Born on May 23, 1954 in Newark, the boxer is famous for a number of achievements. In his 14 years in the professional ring, Marvelous has 67 matches, of which he won 62 and lost only 3. Two of his matches ended in a draw.

Marvin Huggles began his professional career in the sport in 1973 and will remain among the boxers with the highest percentage of victories by knockout - 78% or 52 of the 62 successes already mentioned. He was also the undisputed champion in his category from 1980 to 1987, i.e. holds every possible world title. For six years and 7 months no one could take any of his belts away from him, surely making him one of the most dominant competitors in the sport of the last century.

But, like everyone before him and after him, Marvelous finds his master. Far from expected, it turns out to be Sugar Ray Leonard. Shortly after Hagler defended his title for the 12th time, knocking out John Mugabe in the 11th round, it became clear that this would not be the undisputed champion's last fight. In the late summer of 1986, negotiations began for a match between Marvelous and former two-division world champion Ray Leonard, who had retired from the sport in 1982 but was ready to return to the ring. But even after this year there is one match.

Three years without professional boxing, but still hungry for success, Leonard shows his best. On April 6, 1987, boxing fans witnessed one of the most controversial fights in history. A fight that Sugar won by partial unanimous decision, and the stats showed 306 accurate hits for the winner and 291 for Hagler. The memorable thing about the fight was that Hagler changed his guard in most rounds, which many considered one of his mistakes, and one of the judges, whether Leonard won, said that the world champion was the ineffective aggressor.

Logically, Hagler asked for a rematch, but Leonard officially ends his career this time. A career that ended in more than impressive fashion - dethroning one of the most dominant boxers in history.

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