Unfounded claims were made that Hagler had an adverse reaction to a COVID-19 vaccination – including by his former opponent, Thomas 'Hit Man' Hearns.<\/p>\n
"Pray for the king and his family … he's in ICU fighting the after effects of the vaccine!" Hearns, who lost an iconic 1985 fight to Hagler, wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n
He later wrote: "Our love and respect to Marvin and his family, this is not an anti vaccine campaign … it's outrageous to have that in mind during the passing of a King, Legend, Father, Husband and so much more."<\/p>\n
Hagler's family says he died of natural causes. His wife, Kay, wrote of her distress at the conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n
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"I was the only person close to him until the last minute, and I am the only person that know how things went not even his family know all the details and I do NOT accept to read some stupid comment without knowing really what happen," Kay Hagler wrote on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n "For sure wasn't the vaccine that caused his death. My baby left in peace with his usually smile and now is not the time to talk nonsense."<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/MikeTyson\/status\/1371126988518256645?s=20<\/a><\/p>\n Hagler was a revered fighter, one of the 'Four Kings' in a middleweight boxing golden era, alongside Hearns, Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard. He was undisputed middleweight champion from 1980-87, making 12 title defences before a controversial split decision loss to Leonard ended his career.<\/p>\n Kay Hagler said that the legendary southpaw would always be remembered, though the family did not plan to hold a funeral.<\/p>\n "After 31 years the love of my life is gone and my life without him no longer makes sense, but I can feel him next to me even now and he's telling me not to give up and be strong for him," she wrote.<\/p>\n "Thank you for your love, he loved people so much, he loved you all he was happy when he read your comments he was a special person the most beautiful person I had ever met in all my life.<\/p>\n "Marvin hated funerals and therefore there will be no funerals or church celebrations he wants to be remembered with a happy smile but I would be happy if each of you can light a candle for him.<\/p>\n "However there is something special that I will do because it was his wishes and you will be informed at the right time by me I just need time."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The widow of Marvelous Marvin Hagler has hit out at anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories after the boxing icon's sudden death at 66. Hagler, a long-time middleweight […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45295,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45293\/revisions\/45295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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