Editing Marvelous Marvin Hagler (section)

==Amateur career==
In 1969, Hagler began boxing after being in a street fight with a local boxer called Dornell Wigfall (Wigfall accosted Hagler at a party and took him outside)—whom he later defeated twice on official fights—with his friends watching, and Wigfall easily beat Hagler and compounded the humiliation by stealing the jacket off Hagler's back. The day after the fight, Hagler determined to become a boxer himself. He first entered Vinnie Vecchione's gym (where, unknown to him, Dornell Wigfall trained), but after one week watching, and of nobody speaking to him, Hagler decided to leave for good. He walked into a gym owned by brothers Pat and [[Goody Petronelli]]. They became his trainers and managers. As Hagler needed to be 16 in order to enter some amateur tournaments, he lied about his age, saying that he was born in 1952 instead of 1954. In May 1973, Hagler won the National [[Amateur Athletic Union]] (AAU) {{convert|165|lb|kg|adj=on}} title after defeating Terry Dobbs, a [[United States Marine Corps|U.S. Marine]] from [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].<ref>{{cite news| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IKoqAAAAMAAJ&q=Hagler |title= Young Talent Dominates Boxing Bouts In Boston| work= AAU News| publisher= [[Amateur Athletic Union]]| year= 1973| page= 172| isbn= | via= Google Books}}</ref> Ahead of both [[Aaron Pryor]] and [[Leon Spinks]], officials also voted him the 'Outstanding Boxer' of the tournament.<ref name="The story of Marvelous Marvin Hagler" /> Hagler subsequently turned professional, finishing his amateur career with a 55–1 record.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://boxing-records.com/palm/voirpalma.phtml?boxeur=haglerma.html | archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20060719065116/http://boxing-records.com/palm/voirpalma.phtml?boxeur=haglerma.html | archivedate= July 19, 2006| title= Marvin Hagler Amateur Record| website= Boxing-Records.com| date= March 1, 2006| access-date= }}</ref>

[[National Golden Gloves]] (Light Middleweight), [[Lowell, Massachusetts]], March 1973:
* 1/2: Lost to Dale Grant by decision
{{gold1}} [[United States National Boxing Championships|United States National Championships]] (Middleweight), [[Boston, Massachusetts]], May 1973:
* Finals: Defeated Terry Dobbs by decision