This Day in Boxing History: Marvelous Marvin Hagler Vs Juan Roldan

By Dave “Mythical” Siderski

On the night of March 30, 1984, Marvelous Marvin Hagler faced off against, what seemed to be, another sacrificial lamb provided by the alphabet soup bodies in Juan Domingo Roldan. However, this would be no ordinary night for the Marvelous One. From the opening bell, Hagler was tagged far more often than we were used to seeing. An obvious slip in the first round was ruled a knockdown, the first and only one of Marvin’s career. By the end of the second, Hagler had shockingly lost both rounds by a wide margin. The tide turned in the third when either a thumb or a punch, depending on your viewpoint, found the left eye of Roldan which immediately swelled shut.

From there, it was all Marvelous Marvin Hagler who wore Roldan down with his typical crisp punching and relentless attack. Finally, Hagler finished the challenger off with a crushing right in the 10th. Roldan beat the count but he was done and the fight was mercifully stopped. Roldan would remain a factor in the Middleweight division for the next several years. Hagler would go on to score the biggest victory of his career in dismantling Thomas Hearns one year later. However, his skills were still unmistakably on the decline, a fact that proven definitely a few years later in a showdown with a certain guy named Sugar Ray.

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