Marvelous marvin hagler vs tony sibson boxer

Tony Sibson ventured into the Worcester Centrum two days before fight night. Not to engage in some obligatory last-minute public relations to promote his challenge for the world middleweight title, which certainly was not wanting for supplementary ballyhoo, but to see Johnny Cash perform in concert.

Better than that, Sibbo was given VIP backstage treatment by the Man in Black himself.

Marvelous marvin hagler vs tony sibson boxer

“He was one of my heroes and he sat there in his dressing room jamming for me,” Tony later recollected. “Boxing, and all sports, can take you places you never dreamed you would go.”

It’s probably safe to assume that Worcester, Massachusetts was not on Sibson’s list of places he dreamed of going as an apple-cheeked youngster in Leicester, England or, for that matter, as a respected middleweight contender who had fought on foreign soil just once to that point.

Especially seeing as how one of New England’s typically severe mid-winter