Boxing: Reid has touch of Hagler
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Your support makes all the difference.Britain's Robin Reid did it the Marvin Hagler way to beat Italy's Vincenzo Nardiello and become the World Boxing Council super-middleweight champion in his first title fight.
Marvellous Marvin, now a resident in northern Italy, was at ringside in Milan on Saturday to give the seal of approval to Reid's dismantling of the 30-year-old former Rome policeman.
A switch to southpaw in round seven hurried the 25-year-old Reid's triumph, and Hagler, the former undisputed world middleweight champion, told him: "You did it my way, switched and won it with a body shot."
Reid said: "But we all knew I could do it. Some people said I didn't deserve the chance because I hadn't fought for a British or European title."
Nardiello, who sustained two cracked bones in his left hand and will be in plaster for a month, said: "Fighting in these circumstances was impossible.
"I broke my hand in the first round, I tried an uppercut and hit Reid on the head. I felt bad, I told my manager but he didn't believe me, so I gritted my teeth for six rounds."
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