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...over Tyson's walls at the Ocean Club hotel are the old sepia photographs out of which he has stepped, going back to Mike Donovan, Jack Blackburn and Joe Jeannette, who in 1909 fought a 49-rounder that featured 38 knockdowns. Louis, Rocky Marciano and Ali are there, but Jack Johnson, Jim Jeffries and Stanley Ketchel are more prominent. (John Lardner told Ketchel's 1910 fate in a pretty good sentence: "Stanley Ketchel was 24 years old when he was fatally shot in the back by the common-law husband of the lady who was cooking his breakfast.") The repeaters...
Second Period--1, Y, Tanner (Walsh) :20;3, H, Vukonich (Melrose, Caplan) 9:46; 2, Y, Walsh (Moore, Harrison) 15:15. Penalties--H, Murphy (too many men on ice) 2:34; H, Young (roughing) 9:23; Y, Matthews (roughing) 9:23; Y, Marciano (tripping) 11:03; Y, D'Orsi (roughing) 18:53; H, Sweeney, 18:53, Y, Abraham (roughing) 18:53; H, Pawloski (roughing...
About Sullivan's height (5 ft. 10 1/2 in.), and Jim Jeffries' weight (220 lbs.), Tyson is a square, two-fisted hulk with a short man's proclivity for uppercuts. His urgency suggests Rocky Marciano. "A lot of comparisons are made," he says, "but I can't see them. Maybe if I could stand outside myself. Cus used to tell me that every fighter felt some nervousness just before he fought. But that's when I'm most at ease." D'Amato's surrogate, Kevin Rooney, does the training now, literally by the numbers. "Seven-six- two," he barks from...
...through 15 grueling, if unstirring, rounds to a unanimous decision and his 28th straight victory, making him the first light-heavyweight champion in history to win the heavyweight title. Spinks' upset ended the seven-year reign of his opponent, who was just one fight away from matching Rocky Marciano's all-time heavyweight record of 49 wins without a loss. In 1978 Spinks' older brother Leon took the heavyweight championship from Muhammad Ali for seven months, and the Spinkses are the first brothers to be kings of the ring. (Max Baer held the heavyweight title, but Buddy lost...
...broken hands, throbbing ligaments and twisted ankles. Against Ali in 1980, that sad and empty passage, Holmes actually started the fight with stitches in one eyelid expertly hidden. If several foes have slammed him down, he always got up to win. In this sense, he is fit company for Marciano, whose wounds sometimes imposed deadlines that he always met. Of late, not surprisingly, Holmes has been reviewing all his fights on tape cassettes; but more than on Earnie Shavers, Mike Weaver or Renaldo Snipes, his focus has gone to the machine itself. "When I started out, I didn't have...