Word: middleweight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe Rubin Carter was a hurricane in the ring, but the movie version of his story--the middleweight contender who was framed on murder charges based on racism--downgrades him to a tropical storm. In Washington's finely shaded performance he's a low-pressure system, illuminated by distant flashes of lightning...
...When middleweight Stephan Johnson died Dec. 5 from injuries suffered in a Nov. 20 bout in Atlantic City, the outpouring of grief that greeted his death was appropriate, but was consistently couched in terms of the minor magnitude of boxing to life...
This team is like a middleweight boxer who is talented and has all the hunger and desire he needs to be great but lacks a knockout punch. It wouldn't have taken much, just another score in the third quarter or an extended drive to break up the string of three-and-outs...
...Dangerous" Dana Rosenblatt, the current IBA middleweight champion, floored a group of about 30 Harvard students and a handful of local fans yesterday evening at Hillel with stories about his life as a boxer, his Jewish identity and the problems of the sport today...
Rosenblatt is the first Jewish middleweight champion since 1939 and has compiled an impressive 34-1 record over his seven years in the "sweet science...