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Hearns won those early rounds, but nearly as much fighting took place after the bell as before. Hearns exorcised his anger by refusing to be separated, and Leonard obliged him in those brief exchanges. But if Hearns' potential knockout punch was a bomb ticking, so was Leonard's blinding hand speed and his capacity to exploit an opening. In the sixth round, Hearns dropped his right hand too far, and Leonard swooped into the opening with a savage left hook. Hearns was rocked back on his heels and, suddenly wobbly, retreated to the ropes. While Hearns reeled, Leonard...
Sugar Ray Leonard defeated Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns with a TKO in the 14th round. Hearns, however, was ahead on all three cards--124-122, 125-121, and 125-123--when the knockout occurred...
Sugar Ray Leonard captured the undisputed world welterweight championship last night with a 14th round technical knockout over previously-undefeated Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns. The end came at 2:45 of the round with Leonard pummeling Hearns on the ropes, and Hearns barely able to defend himself...
...twelve-year-old children, of course. But Streep sees what she calls "my makeover" as a willed act, accomplished with contact lenses, a bottle of peroxide and an iron determination. By the time she entered Bernards High School in Bernardsville, N.J., she had indeed become "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout," acting out what she calls "my first characterization; I played the blond homecoming queen for several years." It was not a mindless, giddy time, however; a highly developed sense of irony intruded, she says, with the result that "I haven't felt young since I was 13." But high school...
...Beevis. After putting the word around that they had prepared several back-up dresses in case of a security breach, they finally fessed up that there was only one after all. But it was enough, and then some. It balanced stately splendor and storybook fantasy and was altogether a knockout. "The fairyness was us," David Emanuel said. "The regalness...