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______ Passed Away Today, RIP (5 Viewers)

zamboni said:
RIP Marvelous Marvin Hagler

His bouts against Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, et al during the ‘80s were legendary.

https://twitter.com/super70ssports/status/1370887698576248836?s=21
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Aw, jeez.

This man's ring artistry was responsible for one of my first adult lessons in how stoopit the world could be. Maahvelous Maahvin was a lefty. A deadly lefty. No right-hander wants to face a sonorous southpaw so, for five years of his prime, he was stuck fighting in front of hundreds, maybe thousands of Bostonians against whatever club fighter Goody Petronelli could both convince to get mauled by his guy and might not exhaust the local fight fans' taste for bloodbaths.

I'd go to a few Hagler bouts with friends or relatives and shake my head in both wonder at his skill and disgust that the world could actually keep itself from seeing this beautiful power, economy & mastery. The lower weight classes were just that way until Sugar Ray Leonard wrested interest from the heavyweight class and opened a window on what i consider the most competitive fight scene in boxing history - the Duran, Hagler, Hearns, Leonard welter/middle classes of the late 70s and early 80s. So glad Marv got finally his shot, even though it might not have been his best shot, at the spotlight and served it so well.

We are also the same age, from very much the same place (my eldest son lives in his hometown). This is a bodyshot to my sense of mortality. You were my fighter, Maaaahvelous. RIP -

 
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Hagler is definitely my all time favorite. RIP

Awesome fight with Hearns. Followed by a great commercial. 

 'I wonder what you-know-who is having for dinner tonight ... Probably soup.'

 
Sea Duck said:
Your source is a tweet from Thomas Hearns, man.
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So therefore it's not to be believed. Got it. Pretty sure they stayed in contact over the years. Yep, I'm right about that.

“I still see Tommy and we’ve done a lot of charity work together,” said Hagler, who resides in Milan, Italy.

Pretty weak counter.

Sea Duck said:
Got a link for that?
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Yep. https://newsone.com/4105374/tommy-hearns-marvin-hagler-cause-death/

TMZ reported that one of Hagler’s sons said his father was hospitalized Saturday “after experiencing trouble breathing and chest pains at home.”

Hagler’s website was updated to say he died “of natural causes near his home in New Hampshire,” contrasting slightly with his wife’s statement that he died “at his home in New Hampshire.” Hearns initial statement suggested Hagler may have died in a hospital.

Multiple links so you cant just say oh, its TMZ.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-9360465/Anti-vaxxers-hijack-boxing-legend-Marvin-Haglers-death-aged-66.html

A statement on Hagler's website read: 'We are very sad to report that Marvelous Marvin Hagler died on March 13 of natural causes near his home in New Hampshire.

I'm not anti vax. I'm anti experimental crapola.

 
lod001 said:
Sea Duck said:
Your source is a tweet from Thomas Hearns, man.
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So therefore it's not to be believed. Got it. Pretty sure they stayed in contact over the years. Yep, I'm right about that.

“I still see Tommy and we’ve done a lot of charity work together,” said Hagler, who resides in Milan, Italy.

Pretty weak counter.

Sea Duck said:
Got a link for that?
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Yep. https://newsone.com/4105374/tommy-hearns-marvin-hagler-cause-death/

TMZ reported that one of Hagler’s sons said his father was hospitalized Saturday “after experiencing trouble breathing and chest pains at home.”

Hagler’s website was updated to say he died “of natural causes near his home in New Hampshire,” contrasting slightly with his wife’s statement that he died “at his home in New Hampshire.” Hearns initial statement suggested Hagler may have died in a hospital.

Multiple links so you cant just say oh, its TMZ.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/boxing/article-9360465/Anti-vaxxers-hijack-boxing-legend-Marvin-Haglers-death-aged-66.html

A statement on Hagler's website read: 'We are very sad to report that Marvelous Marvin Hagler died on March 13 of natural causes near his home in New Hampshire.

I'm not anti vax. I'm anti experimental crapola.
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Good Lord this is really poor form here.

I asked if there was a link to support the claim that "Hagler’s wife said he fell ill shortly after the vaccine". But neither of your links come remotely close to supporting the claim -- in fact, none of Hagler's family members even uttered the word "vaccine" in those articles!

Again, your only source is Thomas Freaking Hearns, who actually backpedaled from his original claim after people started questioning him.

 
Don Quixote said:
Yaphet Kotto passed away. Probably most famous as the villain in Live and Let Die, and also roles in Alien and Homocide.

I bring up Blue Collar as an underrated film here from to time-to-time; his performance as Smokey there was great. (ETA: Ebert interview with Kotto about Blue Collar.)
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anchored one of the best casts in TV history (Kotto, Ned Beatty, Andre Braugher, Melissa Leo, Richard Belzer, a Baldwin, Jon Polito, Julianna Margulies, Giancarlo Esposito, etc etc) on Homicide: Life on the Streets,  a show that, while not always an easy watch, was almost as important as Hill Street Blues in expanding the parameters of the procedural to make Sopranos and The Wire (same creative team) possible.

a fierce & proud prince (he was actually African royalty, i hear). RIP -

 
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wikkidpissah said:
anchored one of the best casts in TV history (Kotto, Ned Beatty, Andre Braugher, Melissa Leo, Richard Belzer, a Baldwin, Jon Polito, Julianna Margulies, Giancarlo Esposito, etc etc) on Homicide: Life on the Streets,  a show that, while not always an easy watch, was almost as important as Hill Street Blues in expanding the parameters of the procedural to make Sopranos and The Wire (same creative team) possible.

a fierce & proud prince (he was actually African royalty, i hear). RIP -
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Just a slight sidetrack to say it was an amazing cast and for me the biggest revelation was Belzer. I had only seen him as a standup comic prior to it.

 
northern exposure said:
Just a slight sidetrack to say it was an amazing cast and for me the biggest revelation was Belzer. I had only seen him as a standup comic prior to it.
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he was a god in NY in the 70s. not kidding - there was a point when, if Belz and Richie Pryor were to walk into Catch or the Improv at the same time, a bigger fuss would have been raised for the former

 
wikkidpissah said:
he was a god in NY in the 70s. not kidding - there was a point when, if Belz and Richie Pryor were to walk into Catch or the Improv at the same time, a bigger fuss would have been raised for the former
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I'd never seen him before Law & Order SVU.  He was my favorite character.

 
El Floppo said:
Rip **** Hoyt, best known for pushing his son with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair though countless endurance races including marathons and Iron Man triathlons. If you ever watched IM Kona on tv, you know who I'm talking about.
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Dang, bummer. What that man did for his son is incredible. 

 
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