Marvin Hagler is a thriller at the Villa

Boxing legend Marvin Hagler made a one-stop visit to the West Midlands for a packed out sportsman's dinner at Aston Villa Football Club.

The former undisputed champion of the world, who ruled the middleweight division from 1980 to 1997, was the star attraction at the Holte Suite on Friday night.

Hagler fronted questions put to him by another contemporary world champion, Telford's former WBC world title holder Richie Woodhall, now a voice of Sky Sports 'Fight Night.'

Woodhall conducted the interview free of charge, such is his admiration for the 'Marvellous' one, who flew hack to his home in Milan yesterday morning at the end of his stay in England.

'Sugar' Ray Leonard, another component of the 'Four Kings' division that made the division so famous in the 1980s, was the last illustrious boxing alumni at the Holte Suite in October 2009.

And it was Leonard who effectively ended Hagler's career by eventually dethroning him on a split points decision in April 1987, a decision Hagler still disputed in the West Midlands on Friday night.

He said: "I was going to retire and, in my mind, I had nothing to prove. I gave him the bigger gloves, I gave him the bigger gloves and I would have even fought him in his living room.

"But, as far as I am concerned and to this day, I won that fight."

Also on hand with Hagler was the Midlands fighter who challenged him for the WBC world title in 1983, Leicester's Tony Sibson, and Birmingham's former British middleweight champion Wayne Elcock.