Word: tyson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ring with Tyson for $3.5 million and last longer than Spinks did. And I'm 44 years old," Dan Haupt announced to the Associated Press on fight night...
DEEP in the nation's heartland, Overland Park, Kansas to be exact, there lurks a raging beast. A man who speaks up when other boxers only quake in fear. A man who openly challenges Mike Tyson, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world...
...Puerto Rico had * so many boxing champions and Japan so few. "You can't have champions in a society that is content," he answered. "My kids can't be champions. I spoiled them." Ken Norton's son has become a pro football player. "You have to know struggle," Tyson says...
...those who would take boxing away from the strugglers offer no plan to replace it. And no one wants to acknowledge that it may be irreplaceable. The high-minded view is that boxing will exist only as long as whatever it reflects in mankind exists, although picturing Spinks slaughtering Tyson is easier than imagining a world without men who ball their fists for pleasure or prizes. The big fight doesn't come along so often anymore, defined as the kind that can get in people's stomachs and occasionally have trouble staying there. But here it is again, for twelve...
...usual case for prizefighting as art or science is harder to make in the face of Mike Tyson, the monster that men have worried was at the heart of their undefinable passion and indefensible sport. For twelve rounds or less, Tyson and Michael Spinks will fight over the heavyweight championship next week. It is time again to shiver. See SPORT...