Name: Marvelous Marvin Hagler on Letterman, May 29, 1985
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Marvelous Marvin Hagler on Letterman, May 29, 1985' from Don Giller on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-03-14. Transcript available.

all right we'll see if they go for the suit without me excuse me i'm coming in
again boys
this place is a dump here you go there you are yeah knock yourselves out you
know out here in
the country we have a whole different kind of respect for nature all right oh
watch the bunny
okay all right ladies and gentlemen when you phone the museum of broadcasting
trying to get
a hold of a copy of tonight's tape it was the suit of suet ask for it
see we thought the the animals would just race right to me and and peck the
flesh off my very
bones but weren't quite that lucky were we let's see what old dave has in his
shoe tonight
yes sir a little more in there um on april 15th my next guest gave the world
what many have called
the best eight minutes of boxing ever he is the undisputed middleweight
champion of the world please
welcome marvelous marvin haggler
marvin haggler says i gotta get this guy marvelous i said you really be coming
in that cage you won't be feeding no ducks you'll be feeding me oh oh now now
your name is marvelous marvelous yeah i called you marvin
now when did when did you change your name the last guy that called me marvin i
tell you he didn't look too good
uh
just a joke it's only you know i'm only joking he ain't got enough money for me
uh... all right so i call you marvelous marvelous marvelous now when did you
change your name
oh now now now now now now your name is marvelous marvelous marvelous yeah i
called you marvin now
when did when did you change your name the last guy that called me marvin i
tell you he didn't look too good
uh...
just a joke it's only you're joking you know i'm only joking he ain't got
enough money for me
uh... all right
so i call you marvelous marvelous marvelous now when did you change your name i
had my name changed now for
about uh... close to four years legally but i've always been marvelous always
been marvelous
now what what uh what what made you decide to do it legally that's a big step i
was fighting a guy
named cave man lee and uh and i seen on the monitor just before the fight as i'm
going out and it had
marvin haggler says wait a minute if you could call sugar ray lennon sugar ray
lennon put his name
sugar on there muhammad ali muhammad i said this guy cave man lee what about
marvelous marvelous
he says your name is too long i says what do you mean put it on top marvelous
then marvin haggler
run underneath yeah he says well we don't allow it like that he says and if you
want to change
he says you go to court and get a change legally so i ran into this guy again
he says marvie says i'm
sorry about what happened he says you did just that didn't you i said that's
right and i said if
you don't put marvelous down there's gonna be me and you fella so now what's
the process for
changing your name is it a form you feel like you go to court what do you do
yes it is because basically
i feel marvelous like i said and and i think that it stuck with me in a sense
behind as an amateur yeah
uh i was fighting up in low golden gloves and a couple of people up there
always yell
marvelous behind the time when you do you go to court to do it i went to court
to do that is the
judge say you're sure about this sure does he talk you out of it my license my
birth certificate
everything is marvelous
all right marvelous uh let's talk about tommy hearns now is it true that you
talk about tommy hearns i want
to i want to know something now uh uh do you not like the guy for real well
basically you know you
don't have any personal feelings for the guy i mean nothing uh that would
anything personal okay but
towards a fight you have to build up uh a hatred and everything and as you know
that was a very great
fight behind the fact that it took two of us to make a extraordinary fight like
that and we have to
owe it all really to a guy named muhammad ali because basically he brung in the
money aspect into
the game of boxing yeah he opened it up so for the really big purses yeah sure
now that's a very nice
thing to say but uh between you and me what do you think of tommy hearns tommy
not i'm not talking
about the the anger and the hate you have to generate the white it still has to
come down a
little bit i'm still up there i still don't don't have too much love for the
guy uh basically because
of his personality nothing about his boxing skills or whatever his personality
what about him rubbed you
the wrong way well i think that he's on the ego trip i think that basically i
think that basically the uh
i think that the uh boxing kind of went a little bit to his head and my job in
that fight was to bring
him back down to reality well i think
uh but but when you when's the last time you saw him a day after the i've seen
him no i seen him uh
last week really we was in muhammad ali and i was there with wbc and uh in ucla
and also in muhammad
ali because they're trying to put together a hospitalization a medical plan
something that
would benefit the young fighters that are coming up today now how did you get
along with tommy hearns
then well he stayed uh further away from me yeah yeah that was the people are
saying that that was the
exciting especially the first round was the the most intense flurry of punching
uh that the people had
seen witness now uh is that to agree is that is that the hardest you've ever
hit another man no i
don't think so but particularly for thomas heard behind him wolfing off i had
some medicine ready for
him now when you say wolfing off what does that mean wolfing off means that he's
running his mouth you
know you know he's saying something but there's nothing coming out coming out
yeah so so wolfing off would
be the technical term for running his mouth exactly you know the same thing
what he said you know
action speaks louder than words you heard that same same category now now what
happens to a fighter
what happens to you when you when you get cut do you know you're cut right away
or do you have to wait
until you go back to the corner in that fight in the first round i really didn't
know uh that i was
cut i just felt the coldness of it and i think the coldness of what of the cold
blood i got right on my
my forehead and i looked at that fight four times and i still can't determine
how it actually
happened yeah i think it was uh on his shoulders believe it or not but it's so
great because now
i listen to all these people who have watched hbo and they said i know how you
got cut i says how
did i get cut you he you hit him on his on his cup i said why would i be way
down there
why would i be way down there no i think it was the elbow no maybe not deal but
maybe the back of the
the hand that says you don't hit with the back of the hand everybody's got a
theory oh everybody is
giving me uh how i got cut yeah it's so funny because the people are still up
now when you see
your own blood does that frighten you no then it makes me meaner really yeah it
does you know
because now you didn't done something that's bad yeah especially if you did it
with your cup
that's uh but that was a very exciting fight and one of the greatest they're
talking about in the
century but you know thomas i look at it i know nothing about fighting and i've
met thomas a couple
of times i think he's all right but you can tell everybody no but what i want
to say is he he really
never got over the first round i think so uh i had him in the last inning of
that first round
uh i believe that what they indicated that we threw 83 punches he threw uh 88
82 he threw 83.
yeah i didn't know there was that many punches that could be thrown in the
round but i think
it was a lot of power for you you could tell that he was uh having trouble man
called me a midget
called you a midget he called me a midget no i said you call me a midget i
really don't don't eat
these things up we're going to do a commercial we'll be back with uh marvelous
okay we're back with marvelous uh marvin haigler you're going to be you want to
be an actor yes i'm
looking into that area i've been traveling around doing a lot of footwork uh
right now i think i have
an agency a guy named marty klein is looked to be very good he basically deals
with a lot of emotions
he's a crook motion pictures well i got another guy to watch this guy you have
to do that uh now what
kind of acting do you want to do is serious acting i really just want a little
bit of it yes and bob
i had so much fun if i could talk about that a little bit yeah uh i worked with
charleston heston
and i think it was aired last night and i had so much fun watching that and uh
and working with
charleston heston my heart was going like i thought it was like a world
championship fight man i was
boo boo boo boo boo boo yeah but uh charleston was very good he helped me out
and he let me even call
him chuck i liked it and how much longer are you going to fight do you think i
think another year
one more fight by the end of this year and then three more next year and then i
say goodbye to the
game of boxing and a lot of my fans are very upset a little bit mob don't ever
quit we love you to
fight yeah but you want to you want to see a guy leave on top you really want
to keep this here
together and plus my faculties i i like that speaking of speaking of your head
how often do you don't
start like johnny carson when your forehead ends no no no but okay how often do
you shave your your head
wait a minute i gotta make sure you got all yours too no it's just it pretty
much here oh okay yeah
i shave it basically uh mostly every day sometime every other day it's a good
luck charm to me yeah
my wife thinks i look sexy in it yeah well you do well i it was so i like that
compliment yeah but it
but it also makes you look meaner i think well that's what the fighters say
yeah uh how much money
did you make on this last one this is like six million basically talking about
financial but i'm
quite sure that i got a man working on that right now to make sure that
everything comes in
and then get a guy to work on him yeah he don't take no pain anywhere but it
was it was like six
million one more marvel yeah basically we was guaranteed 5.3 million i was and
thomas i think
5.2 million oh my god and then plus with the old rise and what's so
extraordinary about this here
is that we created something like 300 million viewers to watch that yeah this
is a big one with
all of the closed circuit venues now how do you get the money there's like a
day later somebody
comes by in a truck i have a contract i have something marvelous bring the
shovel out
do you ever are you ever going to see all of that dough uh you know it's very
hard to determine all
that you have to make sure that other guys on i know i hope you do i hope you
get every penny
of it it was a terrific fight you're a terrific guy thank you very much good
luck to you
thanks again my apologies to diane dewitt she was supposed to be on the show
but since the suit of
suet was going so well uh she'll be invited back at another date uh robert
klein also my thanks to him
tomorrow night elaine boozer will be here and jesse takanamiyawa a sumo
wrestler will be here