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Vince Fagan
Vince Fagan of Keyser, West Virginia was a successful area boxer during the early to mid-1970s. Among his back-to-back titles were the 1971 and 1972 Pittsburgh Diamond Belt Tournament middleweight championship. This annual event was considered among the most prestigious of east coast amateur boxing tournaments.
Fagan was also a former all-Navy Champion and winner of various state titles in Virginia and North Carolina. In 1970, Vincent Fagan was inducted into the "National Chapter of Has Beens", a local boxing organization.
Photo, circa 1976, and text from, Twenty Years with Has-Beens Inc., 1969 – 1989, compiled and edited by Robert Shrout and Albert L. Feldstein and articles from the September 28, 1970 and April 4, 1972 editions of the Cumberland Times by Thomas "Bucky" Walbert.