Boxing champion Willie Pep dies at 84
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Willie Pep, a hall-of-fame boxer and one of the best fighters of the 20th century, has died at the age of 84.
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Rafael Marquez captured the World Boxing Council super bantamweight title on Saturday when holder Israel Vazquez quit on his stool before the start of the eighth round due to breathing difficulties from a broken nose.
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Former England and Liverpool captain Emlyn Hughes has died of cancer at the age of 57.
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Former England international prop Barry Nelmes has died suddenly aged 58, the England Rugby Football Union (RFU) has announced.
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EMLYN Hughes. Arguably the greatest player ever to wear a Liverpool shirt, died yesterday from a brain tumour. He had been battling the illness for the last 15 months.
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Colombian boxer Carlos Meza was declared brain dead Tuesday, four days after being knocked out in the ring.
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German boxing legend Max Schmeling, one of the greatest heavyweight fighters of all time, has died at age 99.
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PHILIPPINE movie star Fernando Poe, who nearly unseated President Gloria Arroyo in hotly contested polls this year, passed away today.
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Arturo Gatti decided his most recent beating was his last. The two-time world champion retired Saturday after being stopped in the seventh round by Alfonso Gomez in a 147-pound bout.
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Former Indian Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms but ended his political career facing criminal charges, died of heart failure on Thursday, the government said.
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Silverio Perez, one of Mexico's most beloved bullfighters, has died. He was 91.
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Bill Nicholson, the most successful manager in Tottenham Hotspur&#39;s history, died on Saturday at the age of 85. &quot;It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Bill Nicholson
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Former Indian Prime Minister PV Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms in the early 1990s in the South Asian nation, died of heart failure on Thursday, the government said.
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Former Indian Prime Minister P.V.  Narasimha Rao, who initiated free-market reforms but ended his  political career facing criminal charges, died of heart failure  on Thursday, the government said.
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Former world heavyweight boxing champion  Max Schmeling has died at the age of 99, German sport news  agency SID reported Friday.
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Bill Nicholson, who coached Tottenham in its glory days of the 1960s and 1970s, died Saturday after a long illness. He was 85. Nicholson's death at a hospital in Hertfordshire, outside London, was announced on Tottenham's Web site on behalf of his family.
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Indonesia's ex-leader, 86, Suharto dies after suffering multiple organ failure, police and hospital authorities say.