Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whimsical sense of humor," at 17 had been the youngest reporter ever hired by the Cleveland Press, Paul says, but he had quit to go into the family business. Newman is uncharacteristically subdued in recalling his father: "I think he always thought of me as pretty much of a lightweight. He treated me like he was disappointed in me a lot of the time, and he had every right to be. It has been one of the great agonies of my life that he could never know. I wanted desperately to show him that somehow, somewhere along the line...
...Ring magazine's count, 439 men have been fatally injured in boxing matches since 1918. South Korean Lightweight Kim Duk Koo is the latest. His body was unhitched from a hospital machine last week and allowed to join his brain in death four days after a left-right combination by Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini flattened him 19 sec. into the 14th round outside a casino in Las Vegas. In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin...
DIED. Kim Duk Koo, 23, bruising South Korean lightweight boxer whose 17-1-1 record earned him the World Boxing Association's No. 1 contender ranking; of a brain hemorrhage suffered in a title fight with Ray ("Boom Boom") Mancini; in-Las Vegas (see SPORT...
Roberto Duran bullied him and took his title in June of 1980, but Leonard retrieved it five months later. Duran, after shivering all his great lightweight career in the shade of Muhammad Ali's shadow, came into the spotlight as if out of a cave and was greeted by an Ali just his size. He rubbed his eyes. Later he rubbed his stomach. When Duran quit in the eighth round of the return match, a Leonard tour de force, nobody could believe either the alibi-the little wolf had wolfed down too much lunch-or the truth: an uncivilized...
District Judge Paul Goldman declared the 23-year-old legally dead at 9 p.m. Kim has been unconscious since fighter Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini knocked him out in the 14th round of Saturday night's lightweight title bout...