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...last year, Kevin Futch decided he wanted to circulate a petition denouncing a correctional officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution in Norfolk, where he is an inmate. Futch thought the officer was giving the best cells in his cell-block primarily to white inmates...
...prefight noisiness and nastiness, Cooney Manager Dennis Rappaport, a newcomer to boxing who may be better suited to wrestling, predicted that Holmes would be "thumbing" and raised the specter of retaliatory low blows and a "back-alley brawl." Ray Arcel, the 82-year-old trainer who along with Eddie Futch prepared Holmes, replied gently to Rappaport's tough talk: "I'm ashamed, I really am, that anyone would make such a remark. You know, this is a throwback to the old days when they didn't even wear gloves...
...devoted to Valle. When he appears, Cooney exclaims: "There's my man!" Says Valle when he hears this: "Boy, that puts strength in me to teach this kid." Valle's task may be more awesome than Cooney's: going up against Holmes' wise old trainers Arcel and Eddie Futch...
...trying to tell him how much time has gone by, Joe's old trainer, Eddie Futch, is no longer his trainer. Futch-not Frazier, not the referee, not Muhammad Ali-stopped the "Thrilla in Manila" in 1975 with a round to go. "Sit down, son; it's all over," Eddie said softly after the devastating 14th round, and put his hand on Joe's shoulder. "No one will ever forget what you did here today...
...younger challenger faded. Frazier's face, especially his eyes, visibly swelled. Ali continued to press, knocking Frazier's mouthpiece out and following with a stiffening right. In the 14th, Ali hit Frazier at will. Frazier's left eye was almost sealed. That did it; Manager Futch stopped the slaughter...