Word: brawlers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naval officer and one of those ramrod matriarchs who appeared to have walked straight from the Mayflower to Beacon Hill, young Bobby seemed to be born with sand under his skin. The man who would go to jail as a conscientious objector in World War II was a schoolboy brawler nicknamed "Cal" after the most violent of Roman emperors, Caligula...
...brawler in military school, thrown out of college twice for carousing, he was even dropped from his fraternity for burning down its homecoming display. His father called him heir to a family business, then made an agreement to sell it instead, days before committing suicide. Nonetheless, from boyhood Robert Edward Turner III has likened himself to heroes he studied in the classics, prominent among them Alexander the Great...
...most telling factor will be Hearns's reach advantage. Leonard has a 70-inch reach, which is normal for welterweights. Hearns's reach is an incredible 78 inches. Those extra eight inches will give Leonard fits, because he's boxer, not a brawler. It's not his style to bob and weave to get inside--the way Joe Frazier had to against Ali to offset a four-inch reach disadvantage. And even if Leonard did bob and weave. Hearns is an expert at throwing his left jab to keep an opponent...
...artist loses his title to a brawler in a thriller...
...spectators at Olympic Stadium (capacity: 77,269) and the million or so others at some 400 closed-circuit television locations in North America were expecting a classic confrontation between an artist and a brawler. But from the start, Leonard fought out of character. Instead of dancing and circling on his toes, taking advantage of his longer reach, he tried to punch it out with the challenger. Unfortunately for Sugar Ray, however, he seemed to have left his jackhammer left jab back home in Palmer Park, Md. Explained Leonard: "I felt I could hit him with my best shots flatfooted...