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July 28, 2005
True Romance
You'd have to work overtime to come up with a fight card that punches more of my buttons than this one: in a part of the world I'll probably never see, check; will involve people whom history will likely forget working hard enough to sweat blood, check; involves a guy whose first name begins with three consecutive consonants unimpeded by any pesky vowels, and they're all the letter S, check check check. Summer, and a young man's thoughts turn to boxing in Uganda! Indeed.
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July 17, 2005
Good Run
Bernard Hopkins loses to Jermain Taylor, bring an end to the greatest undefeated streak of modern times: twelve years. Hopkins is forty years old and was planning on stepping up in weight after beating Taylor, but will remain at middleweight for the rematch. Unless there are gnawed-at bones in his closet that we don't know about, everything on the record suggests that Hopkins is as class an act as can be found in professional sports. The rematch is gonna fucking smoke.
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July 11, 2005
Provide, Provide
Ok, see, this right here is why you gotta always be thinking about what you're gonna do for your next act. You gotta plan ahead. You gotta think, man. You gotta scheme & plot & get all your options lined up real nice-like, so that temptation won't find purchase in your soul when you've gotten too damned old to step into the ring.
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