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Article: MARVIN'S MOM IS UNDEFEATED MAE LANG SET TONE FOR MARVELOUS SON
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 29, 1987
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BROCKTON - Mae Lang has a running gag with her son, the
middleweight champion. She says to him, "You gained a career, and I
lost a son."
This has been Lang's way of telling Marvelous Marvin Hagler
that she misses him. After he became champion in 1980, she said,
"He got so busy you had to make an appointment to see him."
All of that apparently was on the verge of changing last
summer, when at Lang's 49th birthday party Hagler announced that he
had a "surprise" for her.
"You got me a car," she said.
"No. You got a son back. I'm retiring."
Recalling that moment in a recent interview, Lang, a woman who
laughs easily and heartily, smiled at the irony. At the time, Ray
Leonard's ...