Four Heavyweight Champs Is the Same as None
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OVER the last four decades, even the casual sports fan could usually name the accepted world heavyweight champion, beginning with boxing&#39;s golden era of Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George
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Las Vegas, NV (Sports Network) - When Vitali Klitschko defends his WBC title for the first time against Brit Danny Williams Saturday night, it will mark the heaviest combined weight for a heavyweight title fight.
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08.12.04 - By Paul Ruby - thepaulruby@hotmail.com -Although I do not agree with The Ring Magazineâs decision to anoint Vitali Klitschko as Heavyweight Champion of the World, I must admit I believe he is superior to every other heavyweight on the planet.
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For Tyson Gay and other newly minted world champions, competition will continue, not for medals but for marketing and sponsorship dollars.
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There would be no ifs, ands, or buts this time. No split championships, no half-victories.
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Picking the men&#39;s winner of the US Open, which will begin today in Flushing Meadows, NY, is no sure thing, based on what happened at the year&#39;s two previous Grand Slam events.
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NEW YORK -- Evander Holyfield, the first four-time heavyweight champion, wants to become the first to win five. The 43-year-old Holyfield resumes his long comeback Nov. 10 when he fights Fres Oquendo at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
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The sensation of the Olympic boxing tournament learned yesterday that there&#39;s no substitute for experience. At least not in the ring.
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Consistency isn&#39;t sexy. It&#39;s not a quarterback throwing bombs, or backs bursting into the secondary, linebackers in their wake.
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Much like Muhammad Ali before him, heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko isn&#39;t afraid to take a political stance. By Joe Cavaretta, AP.
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Evander Holyfield is 43. He hasn&#039;t fought in nearly two years, hasn&#039;t won in more than four, and hasn&#039;t been the heavyweight champ in six years. So?
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Big and small, these eight might not fall.
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Gary Russell Jr. won his bout in the 119-pound division and Raynell Williams won at 125 pounds yesterday to earn the final berths on the United States Olympic boxing team in Houston.The winners in the other nine Olympic weight classes were decided Saturday night: Luis Yanez (106 pounds), Rauâshee Warren (112), Sadam Ali (132), Javier Molina (141), Demetrius Andrade (152), Shawn Estrada (165), Christopher Downs (178), Deontay Wilder (201) and Michael Hunter (201-plus).The world championships will be Oct. 23-Nov. 3 in Chicago. The top eight finishers in each division will qualify for Beijing.
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This is how the AL West was un-won: Basically, the same way it was so often won. How ironic that the Oakland Athletics â-inners of the last three division championships with
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11.15.04 - By JB Reather â-reather@Battle for Supremacy? Battle for Mediocrity was more like it. With four heavyweight bouts on the card, I naively expected to see at least one exciting fight in this heavyweight smorgasbord.
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Just as Ali overshadowed two greats in Joe Frazier and George Foreman, Mike Tyson did the same to Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis.
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Phase one of promoter Don King&#39;s plan to unify the heavyweight championship kicks off at Madison Square Garden tonight with two of the four widely recognized title belts up for grabs and a host of other boxers jockeying for position.