Word: postfight
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...team's training site, supervised by U.S. Coach Pat Nappi, to work with Emanuel Steward, their private tutor from Detroit's Kronk Gym, home to pros like Thomas Hearns. Indeed, the aura of proto-professionalism hung over the ring throughout the week. Fighters met the press in postfight interviews attended by their agents. Instead of boasting of their knockout prowess, they projected their income for 1987; rather than discussing Olympic strategy, they talked about how soon a pro title bout could be arranged. And hovering at ringside were boxing promoters from across America, eager to capitalize...
...Ladies and gentlemen," the ring announcer bellowed a few minutes after the usual postfight bedlam commenced, "a word from the challenger." Cooney came to the center of the ring to get the microphone, and with his soft voice cracking, he told the 32,000 people exiting the parking-lot stadium at Caesars Palace, "I tried with all my heart. I love you. I'm sorry." Later he pledged to "go back to the gym and try harder," saying, "I have no excuse to make. I want you to know, I didn't fight the fight for the money...
...know how nice he is. The people who think he's a tough fighter don't know how tough a fighter he is. He's a nicer guy and a tougher fighter than people know." Perhaps even Leonard does not know. But at the postfight press conference, he rather brusquely pushed aside the ice pack his wife was holding to the back of his neck-so that he could hug Ray Jr., his seven-year-old son. -By B.J. Phillips/Las Vegas
...exulted in a victory that was as multidimensional as himself: over Leon Spinks, over encroaching age, over his need to leave an enduring mark on his sport-three times a champion in 14 years. The new champ laughed with reporters in postfight interviews: "What do you think of this old man?" he asked. Quite an old man indeed...
While his bruises were still achingly fresh, the champ threatened once more to retire from the ring; a groggy Frazier, clutching his pride, refused to quit. Whether either man will live up to those first postfight statements remains to be seen, but there was no doubt that the fight itself was the best each boxer had fought since that epic brawl in 1971 when then Champion Frazier won a 15-round decision against Ali, inflicting a rare knockdown in the process...