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Middleweight boxing great Marvin Hagler is dead

FILE PHOTO: Boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler poses with Bernard Hopkins, of Philadelphia, following their light heavyweight fight at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas [Reuters]

Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who dominated boxing's middleweight division in the 1980s, has died at the age of 66, his wife Kay Hagler said on Saturday.

The cause of death was not immediately known. Celebrity website TMZ reported Hagler was taken to hospital in New Hampshire on Saturday with chest pains and trouble breathing.

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