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Mike Haggar is a video game character from both the Saturday Night Slam Masters and Final Fight series. He has also made cameos and is referenced in the Street Fighter series. He was a professional wrestler who was formely a street fighter and mayor of Metro City.

Vital statistics

Fighting style:— Professional Wrestling
Birthplace:— Manhattan, New York (according to the Slam Masters series)
Birthdate:— September 3, 1943
Height:— 202cm
Weight:— 121kg
Hobby:— Being the mayor
Favorite Dish:— Hamburger Steak, Curry Rice
Dislikes:— Crime

He is 46 years old during the events of the original Final Fight. He is 40 years old during the original Slam Masters and 50 in Final Fight 2 (according to the Japanese version) although much of the latter game's story was mutated by the Street Fighter Alpha series, including date. Haggar is supposedly around his early 60s during the events of Final Fight: Streetwise.

Story

During the Slam Masters series he wrestled for the CWA (Capcom Wrestling Association) for many years, with his daughter, Jessica coming to the ring when he's victorious. There, he trained his successors Biff Slamkovich and Gunloc (known as Alexei Zalazof and Lucky Colt in Japan). During this time, former CWA wrestling great Victor Ortega came out of retirement, while Haggar was running for mayor of Metro City. He won the election, campaigning on a promise to reduce crime and break the power of the many gangs in the cities, but this would make him many enemies in the city's underworld.

In the original Final Fight, Haggar got a phone call one day from a mysterious Mad Gear member (who turned out to be Damnd). He found that if he did not let the Mad Gear gang run around controlling the city as many previous mayors did, his daughter would be killed. Rather than giving into the gang's demands, Haggar teamed up with Cody and Guy to save Jessica from Belger, the leader of the Mad Gear gang. It's generally unknown what he did specifically during the adventure, but he did re-unite with his friends at the very end to confront Belger personally in a great battle. He rushed over to Jessica once Belger was finally knocked out of a window and swore he'd always keep her safe.

Jessica went missing again in Final Fight Revenge, and Haggar went out to find her and attempt to defeat the Mad Gear once more, which was beginning to reform. Since Jessica is seen in Final Fight 3, he obviously succeeded in the former task but failed in the latter. Andore attempted to challenge Haggar for the position of mayor in a wrestling match during a broadcast, but this was never aired and Haggar never knew of the challenge.

Final Fight 2 brought forth the new Mad Gear which had now begun recruiting members and attempted to spread its operations all across the world. They kidnapped the 37th Bushin Master, Genryusai, and his daughter (and Guy's fiancé) Rena. With the help of Rena's sister and Bushinryu fighter Maki and Carlos (a sword welding boarder that stayed with Haggar), he traveled around the world and defeated the group's new leader, Retu. Mad Gear this time was truly destroyed.

In Street Fighter Alpha 2, former Mad Gear member Rolento started up his own gang of militants and actually attacked and besieged Metro City with tanks. Haggar, though not playable in the game, is seen in Rolento's ending showing the incident and stopped the madman before he could do great harm to the city.

In Final Fight 3, Haggar had to rid Metro City of the Skull Cross gang, the latest gang threat to Metro City. Led by the militant, Black, the Skull Cross gang capitalized on the demise of Mad Gear by causing havoc through out the city. Guy, Metro City SCU officer Lucia Morgan and street fighter Dean (who wanted revenge when Skull Cross murdered his family) backed up Haggar. Eventually the four took down Black and the city was saved again (if in shambles from the battle), though sadly afterwards Haggar was never re-elected as mayor.

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