Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Women's heavyweight crew at San Diego Crew Classic...
With cunning and a left jab, the saw and hammer of a boxer, Larry Holmes held David Bey off last week when the latest heavyweight stranger looked strong enough to rip right through Holmes' oaken arms. For four rounds, the only undefeated-and-recognizable champion in the world seemed in awful danger. But when Bey began to fall back in the fifth and sixth, Holmes introduced his right hand, a savage tool, and started to make forceful points, how "this is a very, very hard game," and what "a hell of a job" they had. Later, Bey was able...
...That started Holmes' term of office almost seven years ago, when Easton, Pa., threw the only parade. "I was so happy, I thought I was going to cry," he says. "But I kept things in, and I just waved. It wouldn't be right for the world heavyweight champion to be crying." Having seen Ali wander from Louisville to Chicago to Los Angeles, Holmes knew enough never to leave Easton, his home since childhood. "Back there, I can keep up with the Holmeses and leave those Joneses alone," he says. Financially, Holmes is secure, though he admits...
...champion," he says. "He gave me the strength, the power, not just to defeat people but to beat what they say: 'You don't have it, boy. Go back to your job. Get back on that truck.' Now I own it." This was Holmes' 20th fight for his varied heavyweight titles, having switched alphabetical organizations in midstream, demonstrating that champions are really sanctioned by the public. "Just a little advice," he said, "to David Bey," who was leaning into an icepack nearby, looking younger than 28 and greener than 15 fights. "Try to be a champion outside the ring...
...first time every members of the women's lightweight, heavyweight and novice crews have been invited to participate in that city's traditional Dragon Boat Race. All they need, said Lightweight Coach K.C. Dietz, is airfare for 30 rowers...