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Netanyahu's support may also be eroding because Israeli right-wingers have found a new champion, Avigdor Lieberman, 50. A Moldovan-born immigrant and ex-nightclub bouncer, Lieberman is denounced by the leftist Israeli press as "a racist" and a nationalist in the mold of Russia's Vladimir Putin. He wants Israeli Arabs to swear loyalty to the Jewish state or lose their voting rights; and he is demanding that borders be re-drawn so that more than 100,000 Israeli Arabs, against their will, would become part of a future Palestinian state. Lieberman's Yisrael Beitenu party is expected...
...world title in 1997, beating fellow Brit Chris Eubank, and went on to defend it 21 times straight. His victory over the hitherto undefeated American Jeff Lacy in March 2006 was hailed as career-defining, but Calzaghe has always maintained that his triumph over the Danish WBC and WBA champion Mikkel Kessler in front of 50,000 fans at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium was his finest night. While critics may sneer that his recent back-to-back defeats of American legends Jones and Bernard Hopkins only occurred because they were getting on in years, fans reply that the bouts were...
...Calzaghe took on the recently deposed WBO titleholder and British boxing legend Chris Eubank. Calzaghe emerged victorious over the two-time champion, knocking Eubank down in the opening seconds and claiming a unanimous points...
...June 26, 1959, Sweden's Ingemar Johansson, who died on Jan. 30 at age 76, stunned the boxing world by knocking out heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson. Patterson's four title defenses before he met Johansson had been against fighters who, at best, weren't even household names in their own households. And Johansson, a European heavyweight champion, was believed to be but another in that line, even though he had a 21-0 record with 13 knockouts...
...wife Andrea have two sons. His sister Monica was once married to Mike Tyson, and the former heavyweight boxing champion publicly endorsed Steele when he announced his candidacy in November, saying, "We have to open our eyes more...