The ‘Super Fight’ between Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard sparked a brawl between Bob Arum and Don King, generated $78m and produced one of boxing’s biggest controversies

The ‘Super Fight’ between Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard sparked a brawl between Bob Arum and Don King, generated $78m and produced one of boxing’s biggest controversies

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When Marvin Hagler and the Petronelli brothers sat down at Sugar Ray Leonard’s press conference at the Baltimore Civic Centre in 1982, the world was waiting for the biggest fight in boxing to be made. Leonard, who had just beaten Thomas Hearns to become undisputed welterweight champion of the world, promised ‘an historic announcement’ with […]

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