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...Duran quits in the eighth, and Leonard regains his crown
What happened in the eighth round was only technically a K.O. The real knockout at last week's fight between Roberto Duran and Sugar Ray Leonard in New Orleans: Cover Girl Christie Brinkley, who was simultaneously posing for a fashion article in France's Elle magazine and photographing the action for Fight Promoter Don King. The winner: her gold lame paper jumpsuit. "It was like being wrapped in a Baggie," she said. Yet the incendiary getup had more than a few fight fans burning for a match...
Sugar Ray Leonard won an eight-round technical knockout to regain his WBC crown from Roberto Duran in New Orleans' Superdome last night. Duran subsequently announced his retirement from boxing...
...conveniently transcend the fray. There is no room for a Michael Harrington, a Herbert Marcuse, or a C. Wright Mills in Bell's scheme. Indeed, much of The Winding Passage attempts to discredit these idealists--and succeeds. In method, Bell is a tantalizing combination of Muhammad Ali and Roberto Duran; he taunts, he baits, but he never refrains from slugging it out. He punishes his opponents, and occasionally his readers, with an aggressive and assertive style. The prose of these essays is a relentless onslaught...
...exchange of insults before and during the fight is nothing new. But neither fighter shows the hatred that punctuated the Leonard-Duran brawl. Instead, there is a serious but friendly rivalry between two very different...