{"id":229551,"date":"2021-03-14T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T14:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229551"},"modified":"2021-05-08T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T17:33:53","slug":"controversy-rages-after-death-of-boxing-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=229551","title":{"rendered":"Controversy Rages After Death of Boxing Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Kelsey McCarson \u2013 Heavy.com March 14, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Boxing legend <a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/ufc\/marvin-hagler-dead\/\">Marvelous Marvin Hagler<\/a> died on Saturday, March 13, at age 66 according to a post made by Hagler\u2019s wife Kay on the boxing champ\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MiddleweightBoxingChampion\/posts\/275738203919860\">official Facebook fan club<\/a> page. The news was later confirmed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/sports-las-vegas-boxing-roberto-duran-6072cba88b82681488d28e5757eb3638\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hagler was one of the most celebrated fighters in boxing history, but a post on Instagram made by one of Hagler\u2019s biggest boxing rivals has caused a major controversy to rage across the internet about the former middleweight champion\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour before Hagler\u2019s death was announced, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CMX_evblIgK\/\">Thomas \u201cHitman\u201d Hearns posted<\/a>, \u201cA real true warrior Pray for the king and his family. He\u2019s in ICU fighting the after effects of the vaccine! He\u2019ll be just fine but we could use the positive energy and Prayer for his Full Recovery!\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Speculation Runs Rampant<\/h2>\n<p>Hearns\u2019 post led some to speculate about Hagler\u2019s cause of death, and even about the motives of journalists reporting what Hearns had posted before Hagler died.<\/p>\n<p>For example, boxing journalist Michelle Joy Phelps reposted what Hearns put on Instagram, and some on social media immediately erupted against her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichellePhelps\/status\/1370884891005521925\">Phelps posted<\/a>, \u201cJust before Marvin Hagler\u2019s Passing, Tommy Hearns said this is why he was in the ICU.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just before Marvin Hagler\u2019s Passing, Tommy Hearns said this is why he was in the ICU ? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CyoekDm08H\">pic.twitter.com\/CyoekDm08H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Michelle Joy Phelps (@MichellePhelps) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichellePhelps\/status\/1370884891005521925?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/sports\/ufc\/controversy-rages-look\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxing great Marvin Hagler died on Saturday, March 13, aged 66, but controversy rages over the circumstances of his death. Had he been rushed to ICU following an adverse reaction to the Covid vaccine?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":229554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229551"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229555,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229551\/revisions\/229555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/229554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}