Word: toe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Duran's burning intensity seemed to wane as the match progressed. Leonard, who had wasted his superior speed during their bout last summer by electing to slug toe-to-toe with Duran, wheeled around the ring in high gear this time, sticking the Panamanian with flicking left jabs and evading his head-on charges. By the seventh round, Leonard was so in control of the fight that he turned the tables on Duran and became the taunter. He windmilled his left arm until Duran was mesmerized, then tagged him with his right-a classic sucker punch. Leonard dropped...
...under white sheets held up on posts driven into the sand. In Taiwan, tanned skin is frowned upon; the ideal beauty is pale. If your skin is tan it means you have to work outdoors, farming or building. Even on the hottest days, workers stay covered from head to toe. Some car washers in Taipei wear detachable sleeves to keep their arms out of the sun; they remove them when they rest in the shade. So Alex and I are not surprised that many of the "bathers" are fully clothed...
...Toe--kicker John Scheft--seemed frozen, though, and the score remained...
...back is The Toe--kicker John Scheft...
...third round began with Minter's eyes a bloody mess. Once again the Briton tried to toe-to-toe it, and once again Hagler prevailed. A leaping right hook, sort of a reverse Joe Frazier job, hurt Minter. After a few more Hagler flurries, the referee brought Minter to his corner, where his seconds recognized the obvious and had the fight stopped. To the Minter partisans, however, it appeared that the referee had stopped the fight on his own, and that he had done so unfairly. While Hagler celebrated his victory by dropping to his knees a la Bjorn Borg...