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MARVIN You're read the boohynoiv see the moves of the bomber from Brockton HAGLER HAGLER Continued from Page 33 "I love boxing," he said. "It's been! my life. I think about it. I talk about it with anyone. I want to go all over world and show my talent.

To show people what I can do. To show that-1 really do belong with the big boys. I want Tony Licata. I want Vince Curto. I want the champion Rodrigo Valdez.

To me, if, you're champion, you don't duck anybody." Hagler is a splendid. example of what is necessary to succeed in boxing these days. No longer can you sign as a pro, show up each-day at the gym, and, compile an impressive record until some great, promoter in the sky decides you're ready to knock the champion. It's a long haul, In the beginning, it seemed so simple. Hagler hung around the Pet-ronelli gym for a couple of months, watching.

Then one day he asked to get into a riig. And he showed immediate promise. "The first time a kid asks to box," says Goody" Petronelli, "We put them through! the motions and try to show them a few things. Then we ask them to come back. Marvin came, back the next day and I was surprised at how he seemed to have improved overnight.

But then he told me he went home and had' practiced the things I taught him in front of a mirror. In fact, he still shadows boxes in front of a mirror to this day. 1 "The first year, we started him in the novice division as a middleweight. But it was obvious he was too good for the novices, so he went to the open division. He just missed going to the nationals his first year.

The second year, he won the national AAU meet and was voted the meet's outstanding fighter. "That was in 1973, and the funny thing about that is that in the national meet the athletes were housed at the Sheraton-Boston and Marvin took his TV with him. I asked him. And he said because he planned to go all the way to the finals and that meant a week in the hotel. And he was right." Hagler had compiled a 52-3 record as an amateur.

He was only 19 when he won his national title and had been invited to join the United States that competed in the World Games in Russia that year. At the very least, he seemed a sure bet for the next US Olympic team. But he turned pro. "You can't eat trophies," said Hagler. "I didn't have any money and I needed to work.

Also, it didn't look like I'd get the kind of fights in New England as an amateur to keep me sharp. I'd beaten everybody around. So I became a professional. At first I had some regrets because I wouldn't have a chance to see the world and compete in the various tournaments the way I had done as an amateur. And that was important because it was at the where I really got the feel of being a boxer.

Facing the best and beating the best each time out. "But now that I'm a pro and things are starting to break, I'm beginning to have that same feeling. The traveling and the big fights are a lot like the tournaments. I still don't know much about the people I'm fighting. But I spent five days in Stattle dr the Seales fight and enjoyed it.

I know now I'd like to fight all over." If one fight can turn around a career, it was Hagler's first meeting with Seales. Seales had gained international exposure in the Olympics for the United States. He came to Boston last August for a television bout unbeaten and unblemished. Hagler gave him an awful beating, a crushing blow to Seales hopes. The two fighters met in a rematch in November and while it was called a The Petronellis are convinced that Hagler will succeed because of his speed, his hands and his ability size up his opponents and.

wait for his opportunity. "He's a quiet kid," says Goody Petronelli. "Devoted to both his mother and his father. He's sensitive. If he likes you, he smiles.

If he doesn't, he doesn't fool around. He lets you know it. He's got a tremendous amount of confidence, and yet he's not afraid to work hard." Hagler said hard work and dedication to excellence is part of his makeup. And he thinks all fighters should be that way. "I had a friend named Donald Wigfall," said Hagler, "And we used to be very close.

He's a middle--weight but has been in some trouble lately. He'd like to have a fight now. because he thinks it would be his big break. But he's not going to get it because I know that all he wants to do is get ahead without going to the gym and doing the work. I don't have friends like that, anymore." And the future looks bright.

"Me and my old lady are thinking about how to fix uo our new apartment. Maybe we'll panel it. I'm thinking about boxing and even afterwards I'd like to open some kind business some day. I got a lot of-plans and ideas." On the wall on Hauler's apartment there are two giant life-like posters of Muhammad Ali, whom Marvelous Marvin met at- Logan Airport last fall, when he- was on the way to Zaire and his fight with George Foreman. Boxers have idols; too.

"I asked him what it is reaUv like for a black boxer in the world?" said Hagler. "He told me, 'It's rough, And I can dig But if it didn't stop him, it won't stop me. I'm going to keep on truck in-" Truck On, Marvin, Truck On. draw, even veteran Seattle fight observers conceded that Hagler. had' won the fight convincingly.

"Even their manager had Marvin ahead," said Goody Petronelli. "We had a rematch written in his contract, but I heard Seales has refused to fight it here. He's got a longer reach, but Marvin is a natural middleweight and so much Hagler says he gets impatient The Petronellis tell him it will take time to get ahead. They don't need to tell him that he's not the only cow in the barn, not with close friend Tony Petronelli in the next stall, or that it is hard to build your reputation while fighting out of New England. I know it takes time," he said.

"Time and hard work. But I feel like I'm ready to go on. I know that I have a good manager and trainer. When I'm fighting, Goody is always busy. It's like he was in there himself.

If I didn't see something, I'm sure he does. "Both of them have taken good care of me since I've been here. And I appreciate it. For a time, they didn't take anything while I was progressing. They knew I needed the money.

They got a fair cut of my last purse, fair to both of us." Hagler works for about two hours each day, six days a week in the Petronelli gym, which is in reality a converted, second floor ballroom. The equipment, the lighting, the ring itself are not the newest or the best. But they are there, and Hagler is just one of about 300 kids who have worked out there in the last five years. "Big fine gyms don't make champions," said Pat Petronelli. "In our five years, only Tony, Marvin and maybe Rick Wynn have shown the talent to be great pros.

But we want to get kids interested in boxing, and help them off the streets. That's why it's good to see a kid like Marvin come through." Hagler, only 5-8, has floored 19 foes. COLLEGE BOWLS Oklahoma St. mulls start of 3 freshmen backs Bacardi light rum for what? for their New Year's Eve Sugar Bowl game with Florida. Christmas dawned damp and warm, with temperatures around 70 and gray skies threatening rain, ibut the Cornhuskers loved it.

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