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Sent to the exclusive Hotchkiss School in Connecticut for his senior year in high school, Bork took to intramural boxing and won the school championship as a 147-pounder. By his picture in the yearbook is a fitting quote for a pugilist: "Do you want a contusious scab, maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Long and Winding Odyssey | 9/21/1987 | See Source »

Cohn has claimed lately to be suffering from liver cancer, which he says is now in remission. Even so, throughout the proceedings the old courtroom pugilist was unrepentant. "This is just a bunch of nobodies trying to get me because I'm a somebody," he told reporters in April. He may now seek to appeal his disbarment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Cohn Ko'D | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

...came to Bright Center with a fifth-in-the-nation 2.10 goals-pergame average, a nickname and a reputation as a pugilist on skates...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: He Just Wahz-n't Enough | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...rapidity of a flurry of Marvin Hagler haymakers to the pounding strains of "Burning Heart" by Survivor. The audience has to weather flashing lights, smoke, flags, flying drops of sweat, blood stains, chanting crowds and the ever-present metallic thuds of potentially lethal blows. And like a punch drunk pugilist the audience succumbs...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Stallone's Simplistic Struggle | 12/6/1985 | See Source »

...Crimson pugilist Paul Casey will fight for the New England Golden Glove welterweight division title tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Lowell, Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boxing | 2/16/1983 | See Source »

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