The superfight : Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard /
Doogan, Brian,author.
"Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, two of the most prominent and celebrated athletes in the world, came together to contest the $100 million SuperFight on April 6, 1987 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. From Frank Sinatra to U2, Joan Collins to Whoopi Goldberg, the stars were drawn to ringside by the huge box-office appeal of the blue-collar, dominant world middleweight champion facing his nemesis, the charismatic and flamboyant Sugar Ray, who was coming out of virtually five years of retirement. Drawing on his deep reservoir of nerve, outstanding technique and a strategy which Budd Schulberg called a compound optical illusion, Leonard won on points. It was boxing's greatest comeback, but to this day the judges' decision remains bitterly contested - and not merely by the protagonists... As provocative and polarising in its own way as Ali's defining rivalry with Joe Frazier, The SuperFight is the story of Marvin Hagler and Ray Leonard and a fire that still burns"--
Includes index.
Dinner at Jameson's -- In the ghetto and in Palmer Park -- Hagler's Brockton and Leonard's monsters -- From Olympic gold to Brockton High School -- What do I have to do? Kill someone? -- Hands of stone and blood of Wembley -- The coronation and the showdown -- Alcohol, cocaine and retirement -- You can beat Hagler -- King of the ring -- The challenge -- The superfight -- Epilogue -- After the superfight.
"Marvelous Marvin Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard, two of the most prominent and celebrated athletes in the world, came together to contest the $100 million SuperFight on April 6, 1987 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. From Frank Sinatra to U2, Joan Collins to Whoopi Goldberg, the stars were drawn to ringside by the huge box-office appeal of the blue-collar, dominant world middleweight champion facing his nemesis, the charismatic and flamboyant Sugar Ray, who was coming out of virtually five years of retirement. Drawing on his deep reservoir of nerve, outstanding technique and a strategy which Budd Schulberg called a compound optical illusion, Leonard won on points. It was boxing's greatest comeback, but to this day the judges' decision remains bitterly contested - and not merely by the protagonists... As provocative and polarising in its own way as Ali's defining rivalry with Joe Frazier, The SuperFight is the story of Marvin Hagler and Ray Leonard and a fire that still burns"--
Leonard, Sugar Ray, 1956-
Hagler, Marvin, 1954-
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