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Privately, however, Louis was a womanizer and profligate who disastrously mismanaged his finances. A combination of pride and debt drove him to overstay his time in the ring. He lost his crown, became a referee and, briefly, an overweight professional wrestler. The battle between the Good Colored Boy and the...
Before it was over for Hearns, it was almost ended for Hagler. When Referee Richard Steele paused to have the ringside physician re-examine the champion's wound, a bolt of fear struck the Petronelli brothers in Hagler's corner. But the doctor's brisk finding was that Marvin could...
Technically, it was not a knockout. In a daze, Hearns had blithely walked away from a line of right hands that double-crossed him and smashed him to the ground. At Steele's count of "nine," Hearns was approximately erect, but the referee had a grace of sense. As Hagler...
“That’s something that we would like to do: blame a game on the referees,” Samuelson said. “These are referees that referee all Denver’s games and we will never see these referees again and they don?...
Unfortunately, these few events are the exceptions to the rule. In general, the words “Harvard” and “fanaticism” just don’t go together. I was made painfully aware of this when a referee came up to me after a...