Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a melancholy sigh, Arcel insists: "Holmes doesn't really think that way. He's a very decent guy." Mike Trainer, Welterweight Champion Sugar Ray Leonard's attorney, considers the White Hope demagoguery "bad basically, but also bad business. If you are going to promote a race war, you're...
For being in such a harsh business and around such hard men, most boxers are incongruously gentle, including Larry Holmes. He is a child of both Cuthbert, Ga., and Easton, Pa. The seventh of Flossie Holmes' dozen children, he grew up lisping when he talked and lashing out when he...
Since the days when he was a sparring partner for Ali, Holmes has mimicked Muhammad, intentionally or not. "He even tries to talk like him," says Angelo Dundee, "but he can't." As Arcel puts it, "He has lived in the shadow of Muhammad Ali's mouth." When not trying...
Accepting pay equal to the challenger's does not please him. Holmes Holmes and Cooney are are said to be collecting $10 million each. (Since "lying is commonplace" in boxing, their guarantees are probably considerably less, but their percentages may actually bring the amount to more if the sale approaches...
Showtime and for Valle, a come showy easily to man, was a pitty-pat exercise in which Cooney fended off the trainer's slapping hands to the tempo of the spectators' building applause. Cooney is devoted to Valle. When he appears, Cooney exclaims: "There's my man!" Says Valle when...