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League organizers hope a mix of ancient rituals, like the prefight greeting in which opponents squat facing each other, and innovations (theme songs! acrobatics!) will generate a massive fan base. The fights, which last less than a minute each, are real. But in other ways, S.U.M.O. is following in the large and lucrative footsteps of that other pro-wrestling circuit, World Wrestling Entertainment: it groups chest-thumping characters into four rival clans to heighten the drama of matches and plans a nationally broadcast TV series...
Game Face Mike Tyson showed up at a prefight press conference with a tattoo on his battered mug, a Maori-inspired abstraction that nearly encircles his left eye. "I didn't like the way my face was looking," Tyson said by way of explanation. Whatever. He may not be heavyweight champ anymore, but he could still put the hurt on anybody who makes fun of his new look. Which is why we would never, ever do that...
...drug czar is ready for pro wrestling. He already has the name, and now he's got the prefight talk down cold. In every speech he makes in Nevada, where Bush appointee John Walters has traveled to fight an initiative that would legalize marijuana, he calls out his three sworn enemies as if he were Tupac Shakur. The czar has a problem with billionaire philanthropists George Soros, Peter Lewis and John Sperling, who have bankrolled the pro-pot movement, and he wants everyone to know he's ready for battle. At an Elks lodge meeting in Las Vegas, he ticks...
DENIED. MIKE TYSON, 35, trouble-prone boxer; a license that would have allowed him to fight heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis in Las Vegas in April, following a prefight melee; by the Nevada State Athletic Commission; in Las Vegas...
...comments into print. Elsewhere in the debate, the candidates sparred testily on health care, campaign finance and their respective voting records, in a tone of civility akin to the cursory touching of gloves required of boxers entering their final round - and sometimes with all the trash-talking of a prefight media conference: Bradley, commenting on Gore's appeal to New Hampshire voters to vote against the current favorite, sneered, "Your come-from-behind underdog speech brings tears to my eyes." Gore shot back with "I hope my come-from-behind underdog victory brings tears to your eyes." But there...