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...Finally, and no, this is not a misprint, 5,000-year-old man Roberto Duran has a title fight at the Las Vegas Hilton against WBA middleweight champion, William Joppy...
Called away from Cambridge after sophomore year, Gill spent time in the army stationed in Japan, and won the regimental boxing championship, in the middleweight division...
...Tarver of Orlando, Florida, took another step toward an anticipated Olympic medal when he outpointed Anthony Stewart of Chicago, 17 to 0, in the U.S. Olympic Box-Offs last week, earning a trip to Atlanta. Other newly named Olympic pugilists include lightweight Terrance Cauthen, welterweight Fernando Vargas and light-middleweight David Reid, all of whom should be medal contenders in their weight classes at the Games...
...everyone agrees that money is dominant in the comeback phenomenon. Sugar Ray Leonard, 34, the gifted middleweight who lost badly to Terry Norris last February at the end of his third comeback, said flatly, "I needed the arena." Not the money. What he describes is not just being recognized by headwaiters. It is the sense of being regarded with awe, almost as a messiah figure. Missing that feeling during three years out of the ring was what led him to recently revealed excesses with drugs and booze. No more. Now, "I'm ready for middle...
...want them to stick me with Rocky," Douglas told David Letterman. Still, this mild man from Columbus is stuck with a hero's biography. His father Bill was a sparky middleweight who funneled his dreams into young Buster. Another inspirer, Buster's manager John Johnson, helped steer his fighter through recent family tragedies -- especially the death of his mother Lula last month -- and toward a bout with Tyson. Boxing savants expected it to be one more anonymous sacrifice to the Kong of sport. But Douglas had strength, stamina and grace. And he lacked what other Tyson victims have brought into...