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...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...
They have plenty of help from some very well known human friends. "My kids gave me a proposition I couldn't resist-do it or else," says Telly Savalas of his cameo as the barroom brawler who is intolerant of warts. Other humanoid notables in the cast are Orson Welles, Bob Hope, Richard Pryor and Dom DeLuise. But to the Muppets' 235 million worldwide fans, the real heros of all this silliness are sensitive Kermit the Frog; his friend Fozzie, the stumbling bear; Miss Piggy, the porcine blonde caught achingly between show-biz ambition and true love...
...stabbed Maitland? Apparently someone who knew him, because there was no sign of forced entry. To know Maitland was to loathe him; he was a foul-mouthed brawler, a womanizer, a raging egomaniac. But he was also a genius of the first order, the finest painter of female nudes since Matisse and Bonnard. In recent years his paintings have sold for up to $100,000, and presumably prices will rise after his death. Who covets the paintings, or the money...