Clarence George
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Kazuto Ioka Defends Flyweight Title
Gone the days, perhaps, when Fighting Harada stood alone atop the center pedestal in the pantheon of great Japanese fighters? Kazuto Ioka will defend his WBA World flyweight title against Roberto Domingo…
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When Fatties Collide
Heavyweights Joey Dawejko and Natu Visinia face off for a scheduled eight rounds at the D Hotel & Casino on August 28? ?Words don?t break bones.??Samoan proverb Heavyweights Joey Dawejko and Natu…
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The Fall of Luis Collazo
Who quits because of a cut BELOW the eye? What?s next, mussed hair? Of course, that wouldn?t apply to the follicularly challenged Collazo? ??Lo es una verg?enza!??Spanish for ?What a disgrace!? June…
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Clarence Hinnant: He Fought Them All
Rather curiously, Hinnant three times beat a fighter by the name of Young Kid Satan and once decisioned Raymond Dieu (French for God). Hmmm? ?The best-laid plans of mice and men oft…
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The Prince Takes Action
Are either largely untested Istvan Szili or Antoine Douglas made from sausage? The grilling takes place July 17? ?It is not enough to be Hungarian; you must have talent as well.??Alexander Korda…
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The Push-Up Boxing Glove
Abercrombie & Fitch was renowned for outfitting manly men like Theodore Roosevelt, Ernest Shackleton, Ernest Hemingway, and, uh, Cole Porter? ?Do you have any men?s shirts for men???Joe Pesci in Easy Money…
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Almost Missed Manny and Money
?They didn?t even hit each other,? said my mother, who during the preceding sixty-two years I?ve known her had denounced boxing as barbaric? I realize most sports fans and other seekers of…
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Till the Fat Man Sings
Wladimir Klitschko will defend his rainbow of belts tomorrow night at Madison Square Garden, taking on Bryant Jennings? ?In the final instance civilization is always saved by a platoon of soldiers.??Oswald Spengler…
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The Hungry Hobby
For those of you who share my nostalgic yearning for the old and timeless, a word or two on Helmar Brewing Company?s collectible cards? ?Beware the hobby that eats.??Benjamin Franklin It?s been…
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In This Corner?Murder!
Leave it to Mr. Moto, who promises to reveal the killer?s identity the night of the championship bout? ?To reveal a snake, one must overturn a rock.??Mr. Moto A soaker of a…
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Big Boy and the Bomber: Fightin? Cousins
Maybe he wasn?t badder than old King Kong or meaner than a junkyard dog. But, however you define it, Big Boy Brown was bad? ?The baddest man in the whole damn town.??Bad,…
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Pack Man: No Quittin? on a Stool
?After Galento thumbed him, Lorenzo Pack panhandled around Jack Dempsey?s Restaurant back in the 1960s?? ?Nothing is as new as something which has been long forgotten.??German proverb Fooled ya! No, this is…
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On the Sunnyside of the Street
?What boxing could use today was another Sunnyside Garden. Anyone who loves boxing loves Sunnyside Gardens?? ?They didn?t have fights here, they had wars.??Harold Lederman It?s not often that the history of…
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Jack O?Halloran: He Can Talk
O?Halloran had Christopher Reeve up against the wall during the making of the second Superman film, but director Richard Donner intervened? ?He wore a shaggy borsalino hat, a rough gray sports coat…
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Ain?t That The Truth
Unnecessary roughness, is it? This is boxing, not girls? softball. There should be no such thing as ?unnecessary roughness?... ?You can?t handle the truth!??A Few Good Men Too soon to tell if…
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Hard Jews
?This guy is burning me?the girls in the spaghetti house!? Who?d have thunk that mobsters could be so poetic? ?Then the lobsters came. We ate.??Abe Reles That?s ?Kid Twist? telling the jury…
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Mayweather?s Marvelous Moment
Baseball ain?t what it was in ?74. As for boxing?Rocky Marciano retired undefeated almost 60 years ago? ?You can only milk a cow so long, then you?re left holding the pail.??Hank Aaron…
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Why Not the Best?
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen: Tony, are you fighting tonight? Tony Galento: Yes. Sheen: Will you win? Galento: I always win. ? Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen An acquaintance…
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Miguel Cotto: In a Dark Manner
WBA king Gennady Golovkin would be the best choice, in my opinion, but Cotto trainer, Freddie Roach, disagrees? ?We see now through a glass in a dark manner.??1 Corinthians 13:12 Miguel Cotto…
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Lou DiBella and the Horseshoe Nail
Do I have the slightest evidence for that assertion? I do not. But I was brought up watching Raymond Burr as Perry Mason? Hamilton Burger: Why, Perry, you know as district attorney…