Word: spinkses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The usual case for boxing as art or science is rougher to make in the face of this face. Valor can be redeeming; so can grace, poise, bearing, even cunning. But this is a nightmare. The monster that men have worried was at the heart of their indefinable passion, of...
As a fictional character, Tyson would be an offense to everyone, a stereotype wrung out past infinity to obscenity. He is the black Brooklyn street thug from reform school, adopted by the white benevolent old character from the country who could only imagine the terrible violence done to the boy...
In what is now a two-barge industry, Spinks will also have something to say about lineage. The fight is in Atlantic City instead of Las Vegas, which might be called the aging champion of fight towns if the challenger were not so decrepit. Atlantic City forces its smiles through...
In this at least, Michael Spinks can concur. Though ten years older than Tyson, he has managed to register three fewer professional bouts -- 31 to 34 -- and only four of those against heavyweights. All told, the two men share 65 victories and uneven parts of the mystical championship. While Tyson...
If Spinks beats the odds and triumphs tomorrow night, it will be quite a story. Unfortunately for the sport, Tuesday's papers won't trumpet the return of one of the all-time greats to the top of the boxing world. And it's highly unlikely they'll berate Tyson...