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...Maybe lonely is wrong, though Cus never married in 77 years, admitting only one passion. As the legal ward of D'Amato, Tyson was kin to Floyd Patterson, the youngest champion until last week. A Tyson left hook in the second round sent the World Boxing Council's Trevor Berbick bouncing across the ring and almost through the ropes. That made 28 victims in 28 fights, 26 by concussion, from "hydrogen bombs" thrown "with murderous intentions." Tyson also said, in a gentle lisp so becoming and contradictory, "Look at me. I'm just a boy, and I got this belt...
...think I'm fighting?" says Ali, looking up from a dressing-room cot after working out in the Bahamas for his own comeback this week against Trevor Berbick. (If it comes off, that is; even Ali has trouble believing it.) For the spotlight, comes the reply. He is fighting again because he needs to be a star, needs to shine...
...Trevor Berbick won a lopsided ten-round unanimous decision last night over Muhammad Ali. Berbick was content to hit Ali in the body, and never really attempted to knock...
Late tonight Muhammad Ali--once a god, now forgotten--may fight Trevor Berbick, a tough young heavyweight who just a year ago went the distance with champion Larry Holmes. I say may fight, because there is some question where the money for the fight is coming from, and whether it will arrive in the Bahamas in time for the opening bell. May fight, because there is always the chance that Ali, all 39 years and 237 pounds of him, will look in the mirror one last time and decide that his encounter with Larry Holmes last year was punishment enough...
...been telling reporters all week that he'll beat Trevor Berbick, using mind over matter. He's even twisted that saying around into a cute little poem: "If you don't mind, it don't matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter," he always says it twice...