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...over, he hopes to auction off the fighters shoes, trunks, robes and gloves "If a movie studio can auction off Judy Garland's red slippers," he says, "these things ought to be worth something. You've got to throw away the book on this fight. This one transcends boxing???it's a show business spectacular." It certainly is, as far as the fighters are concerned. Each stands to make $2.5 million in cold cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bull v. Butterfly: A Clash of Champions | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

Each of these big men boasted he would batter the other unconscious and each?though Sharkey had been coached to check his "killer" instinct and weary Dempsey by skillful boxing???reverted quickly and satisfactorily to the brute soon after the first gong sounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Matter of Opinion | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

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