Word: champ
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want to grow tall." That was the birthday gift Reza Garakani, 14, one of the world's shortest dwarfs, would ask of friends and relatives year after year. His parents would joke and bluff their way through the painful moment. "Maybe next year, champ!" Later in the night they would cry themselves to sleep together. Their son's wish, like that of more than 50,000 other Americans who suffer from some form of dwarfism, had long been ungrantable...
Meanwhile, the Golden State batting champ had been seduced by a new love: music. Olmos taught himself to sing and play the piano and, by 1961, was good enough to join a band called the Pacific Ocean. Sporting hair down to his waist, Olmos was the group's lead vocalist. "I was a terrible singer," he admits, "but, boy, could I scream and dance...
...from the Midwest fight the champ. Everyone comes out happy. Tyson, because he'll be another $20 million richer. Haupt, because he'll pocket $3.5 million, which, incidentally, will be donated to inner-city social programs. And us, because this fight will last longer than 91 seconds...
Haupt is the type of boxer who will catch Tyson off guard by picking at his mind. Haupt has the power to transform the ring into a doctor's couch by playing "the psychological game" with the champ. Haupt is 23 years wiser than Tyson, and, as he shrewdly notes, the champ must "have an Achilles heel someplace." Dan Haupt of Overland Park, Kansas, could be Tyson's Paris you know, fight fans, the Trojan...
...David either. When Tubbs fought Tyson in Japan a few moths ago, it looked like he had one too many pound of sushi and washed it down with a keg of Sapporo. But you couldn't remind Tony about his weight problem. He thought he could beat the champ...