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...sport and won't get out until I'm speaking so people don't understand me?" Lewis is expected to announce his plans in the coming weeks, and a line of challengers is forming. But will he bother to fight any of them? A mandatory defense of his ibf title is due against Chris Byrd, wba holder John Ruiz is also waiting and there is the young Ukrainian WBO holder Wladimir Klitschko. Lewis may have lost some motivation, but he hasn't lost his financial sense. "If they want me to fight those guys they're gonna have...
...subject of devoted Don-ologists who conjectured as to the inner workings of his Cleveland leadership compound. That Beijing chose to appease King is a tribute to the Chinese commitment to the very ideals King best embodies: bare-knuckle capitalism combined with the stench of corruption. (King lured IBF and WBC heavyweight titlist Hasim Rahman by reportedly giving him $500,000 in $100 bills, a check for $4.5 million and guaranteed access to King's extensive guanxi network.) The title bouts feature Rahman fighting journeyman Brian Nielson, as well as EVANDER HOLYFIELD taking on John Ruiz. "Chinese are like flowers...
OCCUPATION Boxer, IBF Junior Welterweight Champion...
...that you should lead with your strongest punch, a group of federal prosecutors is trying to use the RICO anti-racketeering statute to shake up the International Boxing Federation as if it were the Gambino crime family. Monday, several New Jersey U.S. attorneys filed a civil suit against the IBF - the only major sanctioning body based in the U.S. - seeking the appointment of a monitor to oversee the restructuring of the organization. The impetus: Earlier this month, four top officials from the IBF were indicted on racketeering charges, including taking payoffs to rank lower-tier boxers and squeezing unreasonably large...
...Anyone who gets the job can't be a lightweight. While the government has made similar moves to rid groups such as the Teamsters of corruption, few industries are as unwieldy as boxing. Critics say that the gaggle of international sanctioning bodies (IBF, WBC, WBO, WBA) that have arisen in the past few decades have created an environment where fighters and promoters can bribe their way up the rankings ladders and accountability has disappeared. While some believe that the sport's powers have become too big and decentralized to regulate, prosecutors hope they can prove another old boxing adage...