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...little of that dreadful impact comes across in the film, which is too respectful of its subject to find more in it than noble cliches. Salamo Arouch (Willem Dafoe), formerly the Balkan middleweight champ, is interned with his family at Birkenau and soon ordered to take part in boxing exhibitions in which the loser will almost certainly be killed. This grisly dilemma -- each of Arouch's knockouts sends his opponent to the gas chamber -- is mostly evaded in Robert M. Young's bland direction. The film's only and considerable virtue lies in its documentation of the desperate strategies people...
...boycotted 1984 Games, it was the best U.S. total since 1904. The gold winners: bantamweight Kennedy McKinney, 22, light heavyweight Andrew Maynard, 24, and heavyweight Ray Mercer, at 27 the oldest U.S. fighter, who danced delightedly around the ring after knocking out Korea's Baik Hyun-man. Light middleweight Roy Jones, 19, lost a plainly mistaken decision to Korean Park Si-Hun (even some Korean fans disagreed with it) but wound up with a measure of revenge: he was named the best fighter of the Games by the International Amateur Boxing Association...
Meanwhile, time was running out in different ways for American boxers Anthony Hembrick and Kelcie Banks. Middleweight Hembrick, 22, captain of the U.S. team, missed a bus and never got a chance to fight. Featherweight Banks, 23, should have missed his; he got careless midway through the first round ^ against Regilio Tuur of the Netherlands, ran into a hard right hand and suffered a one-punch knockout that left him unconscious for a full three minutes. "I never saw it, didn't even feel it," Banks said after an overnight hospital stay...
BEST COMEBACK Returning to the ring against everyone's wishes, Sugar Ray Leonard protected his repaired retina long enough to restore his crown in a startling upset of Middleweight Champion Marvin Hagler...
...took over the symphony hall, and to a harpist's rendition of The Harmonious Blacksmith, Cuban-born Roberto ("Tony") Urrutia tried his hand as an American. The three-time world champion, who defected seven years ago on the end of a bedsheet in Mexico City, finished third in the middleweight class to two former countrymen. Fidel Castro sent them his congratulations: "You taught an exemplary lesson to the traitor." Urrutia declared he was glad to be free, "like a bird," but the / medal ceremony was bittersweet. "When I hear the national anthem," he said wistfully, "of course I feel like...