Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious nomination for Best Actor would be heavyweight terror Tony Consigli Cast as Atlas, Consigli shouldered the Crimson's hopes for salvaging the afternoon. Harvard trailed Central Conn, 20-15, going into the final match of the afternoon, and only a pin could bring victory...
...stunning victory was followed by a tie from John Freeman at 158-Ibs., and victories from Co-Captain Peter Holmes at 167-Ibs., John Willoughby at 177-Ibs., Alex Konovalchik at 190-Ibs. and Tony Consigli in the heavyweight slot...
...underpopulated Albany squad, the big loser yesterday at the MAC, was forced to default in the 118-lb. and in the heavyweight contests. Its misery was furthered by losses to Harvard's Jeff Barey at 134-lbs., John Freeman at 150-lbs., David George at 167 lbs. John Willoughby at 177-lbs., and Alex Konovalchik in the 190-lb. match...
Resentment of black advancement in athletics is especially fervent because sport epitomizes the ideal of male perfection. Many white men find it disturbing that a black might best fulfill that ideal (and might collect the accompanying glamour and money). Thus, after Jack Johnson captured the heavyweight championship in 1908, the urgent search began for a "great white hope" to reclaim the crown. Some 60 years later, when no white fighter could manage to win the title in the ring, whites took solace in a cinematic champ, Rocky. The current pro football season cast up another unsettling black breakthrough. Black quarterbacks...
Boxing finally finished with Larry Holmes last week. Just as he always did while he was heavyweight champion, Holmes kept getting up when Mike Tyson kept knocking him down in the fourth round of their title fight in Atlantic City, N.J., though the third time down the referee made him stay. The final punch Holmes threw at 38, 28 months since he lost the title he had held for seven years, was a roundhouse right that got caught in the ring ropes, straightening him up perfectly for the right fist from Tyson that knocked him into oblivion...