Book Review: Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His Upset of the

Herald Tribune - mayor of Shelby to honor a $250,000 guarantee that had been made to lure the champ to fight there. In 1924 Dempsey went into semiretirement by taking $1 million from Universal to star in 10 silent movies. But two years later, playing a heavyweight on
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comments on: IBA Light Heavyweight Boxing Tournament Starts Tomorrow
East Side Boxing - this has less talent than Showtime's #168 tourney which ends next month. I know Butler has taken to the road many a fight post comments on: IBA Light Heavyweight Boxing Tournament Starts Tomorrow
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Hopkins: "No Taylor, Jones. Calzaghe Fight Me!"
Boxing Scene - My first goal is to see if I can physically fight for a heavyweight title, if I can't I'll focus my attention on Calzaghe. But it'll depend on my motivation at this stage of my life. I'm 42 next month so what motivation does Bernard Hopkins have to
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Stallone's ageing Rocky clambering through ropes once more
OptusNet - Now 60-year-old Stallone is back, pulling on the gloves once more for Rocky Balboa, which has the boxer coming out of retirement to fight the reigning heavyweight champion in a one-off exhibition bout. Movie industry experts question however whether
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Rodman refuses to pay settlement, rape trial ordered
Turkish Daily News - Tyson's former promoter Frank Warren says only Lewis refusing to fight will stop the heavyweight contest going ahead now. "The only way it can't go ahead now is if Lennox Lewis refuses to fight," he told Sky Sports television. "Lewis and Tyson have
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Paul Hollingsworth is the Halifax correspondent for SportsCentre, TSN
TSN - He also covered Gary Carter's Cooperstown Hall of Fame induction in 2003 and Kirk Johnson's WBA heavyweight title fight against John Ruiz in 2002. Hollingsworth graduated from Saint Mary's University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He also
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Who Was the Worst of 2006? The Boxing Stinker of the Year Award
East Side Boxing - He successfully added 15lbs. of solid muscle and moved up to light heavyweight to fight the best light heavyweight fighter and undisputed champion at the time, Antonio Tarver and totally and thoroughly dominated him. No one saw this coming and very
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Roa returns to Mallorca after year out due to religion
Turkish Daily News - men won 11 years go against the powerful East Germans and Soviet Union Lewis aims to turn homecoming into Buffalo hunt World champion Lennox Lewis weighs in almost 6.3 kg heavier than South African Frans Botha before their heavyweight title fight
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Sylvester Stallone says sixth 'Rocky' movie brings story and character
Times - The plot and climax swirl around a computer-simulated fight aired as entertainment highlight on ESPN between "at-his-peak" world champ Rocky against the current heavyweight title holder Mason Dixon, played by real-life light heavyweight champion
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New book says Muhammad Ali was 1st `heavyweight champion of rap'
MLive.com - Muhammad Ali the First Heavyweight Champion of Rap," proclaims Ali's verbal barrage was more than self-promotion, but that it magazine cover showing Ali punctured with arrows an allusion to the criticism he received for refusing to fight in the
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