"Blood and Hate" by Dave Wedge
229 pages, published by Dave Wedge and Hamilcar Publications , ©2025 The boxing world is familiar with the name Mavelous Marvin Hagler. New England, especially the city of Brockton is even more familiar with the bald-headed, goateed former Middleweight Champion of the World. Hagler's journey to the belt was not an easy one. "Blood and Hate" begins on the streets of Newark, New Jersey, where Marvin would have to crawl from room to room in the apartment he shared with his mother and siblings during the Summer of 1967, when reports of police brutality during the arrest of a black cabbie soon exploded into burning buildings and gunshots. Having enough of needing to tell her children to keep the lights off and avoid the windows, Ida Mae Hagler packed up her six children and moved to Brockton, where they moved in with Ida's cousin. Marvin Hagler, then fifteen, went to work in construction while his other siblings went to school. Marvin also liked to go to parties like a lot...