Famous Boxer Died Recently. Marvelous marvin hagler, boxing's middleweight champion for most of the 1980s, died unexpectedly at home in new hampshire, his wife, kay hagler, said. South african boxer gerrie coetzee was the first boxer from his continent to become a world heavyweight champion, and famously fought frank bruno at wembley.

One of the toughest and most beloved boxers of the modern era, former undisputed middleweight champion marvelous marvin hagler died saturday at age 66. Gerrie coetzee, a former south african boxer and world boxing association heavyweight champion who defied some of his country’s racist laws during the height of.