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...loss marks an end to a downhill slide which has left a blemish on his career of late. Now Ali can begin again, and though many supporters would prefer that he retire, you can bet that the former champ will be back. Ali would never end his career as a loser--it's not his style...
...boxing world has new life. Some said it could never be done. They said the champion would never lose his crown on a decision. They said you had to knock out the champ to take the title. But Leon Spinks proved all the skeptics wrong...
...boxing has a new outlook, and Ali will be back with a fresh approach. Don't think boxing's greatest is all done, because even at age 36, the former champ said after the fight, "I want to be the third man to regain the title...
...overflow crowd packed the seats behind Hemenway's court an hour before the match in anticipation of the first meeting in college competition between the 1977 men's national champ--Page--and the collegiate champ--Desaulniers. What the crowd witnessed was a one-man magic show, as Desaulniers mystified Page with some of his brilliant shotmaking while munching on Page's assortment of shots as if they were so many smoked baby clams...
...then there was freshman Tuomo Kerola, who probably got the most important second place of his college career in his 200-yd. breast stroke bout against unfair odds in the Tigers John Christensen and last year's Eastern Seabord champ Chuck Hector...