Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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For once, the hackneyed billing of a fight-"The Pride and the Glory"-fit like 8-oz. gloves. Gerry Cooney turned out to be the pride, Larry Holmes the glory. In fact, Holmes was both; he was everything. Elegant when the fight was not, eloquent when nothing needed to be...
Rushed into the top challenger's position after 25 short victories, and rusty from 13 months of inactivity, Cooney fought Holmes more than twelve brave rounds, until he could barely stand up and his trainer, Victor Valle, could stand no more. With fewer than ten seconds remaining in the...
Cooney threw a profusion of low blows. The most dizzying one, in the ninth round, made Holmes double over and take 21/2 of the five minutes offered him by the referee for recovering. But they seemed to reflect Cooney's amateurishness rather than viciousness, not to mention a frantic...
And a sad one, as Joe Bugner, the sparring partner, knows. Bugner is a congenial Hungarian giant, less innocent than Cooney. Twice Bugner went the distance with just about the best of Ali ("I'm so proud of that"), including 15 rounds for the championship in 1975. When Ali was...
Rocky is a meat-and-potatoes exemplar of the American dream, a working stiffs contender who battles for his dignity against odds that seem overwhelming. Rocky III, premiering just two weeks ahead of the Cooney-Holmes championship match, extends a fresh set of sweat-stained victories to Rocky's...