Word: holyfield
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They should have the plastic surgeons postpone it for a week and let people get over this earthquake. I'm still shaking from this quake," said Keith Holyfield, 28, an unemployed man in a stained shirt and tattered green-and-yellow Oakland Athletics' cap who waited outside the Moscone Center on yesterday...
...anyway," he said without regret, only a little embarrassed after the T.K.O. Commending Taylor, "a good technician," Lecce confessed he had been unable to rouse any prefight bile. "Like everyone else I was very proud of these guys," he said softly, and by then the pipes were calling Evander Holyfield...
...that stony light-heavyweight Georgian whose Olympic misfortune or fortune it was to ignore the referee's signal and flatten a New Zealander on the break. For knocking himself out, he was awarded the bronze medal. Still the broadcasters and promoters took Holyfield over a number of gold medalists, like Heavyweight Henry Tillman, who must have had a Garden seat somewhere, since all tickets were free. From a passageway he watched Holyfield step out against a hardheaded brooder with no choice but to be a fighter. Lionel Byarm has Joe Louis' face...
...years ago, Louis refereed a Joe Frazier-Jerry Quarry bout at the Garden, his last workday there, and seeing Byarm brought back the dull striped shirt he wore and the sad lost look of him. Holyfield punched past the bell twice-incredible-to rumbling boos. "I was in the groove of punches," he said later. "I didn't hear the bell." Byarm's lip was frayed, but the Brown Bomber had signed to do six rounds and did the six, winning one of them, maybe two. "I'll be back in the gym Monday," he said...
...losses or judging reversals were the rare exceptions as the U.S. juggernaut rolled on. Even ABC'S Howard Cosell, the unofficial cheerleader of the team, seemed taken aback at the one-sidedness of the competition. Said Cosell, just before Holyfield's disqualification: "The overwhelming succession of American victories has become almost embarrassing." Nearly every weight-class competition yielded a U.S. champion with a distinctive style and something to prove...