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...year-old Chinaka hits the canvas in the third. It's not the first time this bout the Burmese has gone down, and the beatings have taken their toll: he seems to be swimming in slow motion on the dirty floor. As he inches on his stomach across the ring, the crowd screams at him to get up while his Thai opponent, fighting the referee's restraint, presses to finish him off. Chinaka's eyes are frosted and bloody from three fresh cuts on his right brow. Giving up, he feels his way to the ropes...
...over. By night he is back on his side of the border trying to recover, and doesn't show for the next day's tournament. Whether he will fight again any time soon is unsure, but by age 24, boxers are often approaching career's end in the gloveless ring. Chinaka's manager and trainer know it: they're busying themselves with a new crop of fighters to replace him. Chinaka's battles may be coming to a finish, but the fights...
...time they spend together, they regularly attend church. One day, as they were just finishing services, they were praying together before leaving. As he finished reciting the prayer, he slipped the ring on her finger, saying, "And please bless me, personally, that as I ask Hillary to marry me she will say 'yes.'" Afterward, I got down on one knee and, fortunately for me, got my wish...
...River. "There I explained that the 'surprise date' I'd been talking about was going to extend far past dinner that evening, and asked her to marry me. As I was proposing, and building up to the big finish, I was fumbling around in my pocket looking for the ring, and almost dropped it into the icy depths of the St. Croix...
...While he didn't quite drop the ring, things didn't go exactly as planned. "It was dark out there in the woods and she couldn't see the ring at first, so her first look at her engagement ring was by the pallid green light of my cell phone," Tyrgve says. "She got to examine it on the way back to her parents' house, however, as she insisted on keeping the dome light of the car on throughout the drive...