Mark Breland Doesn’t Deserve This Kind Of Treatment

By: Sean Crose
Some of us of a certain age remember Mark Breland the fighter. Emerging from the golden 1984 US Olympic team, the Brooklyn native went on to be the WBA welterweight champion of the world. The man's life had all the trappings of a rising star. He was respected in the business, appeared in a Pointer Sisters' video and even found himself on the hit TV show Miami Vice. Then came Marlon Starling. The veteran met the rising star in South Carolina, in a bout that was aired live on networ