Marcus Browne, a boxer on the U.S. Olympic team, noted hiccups with the service.
It was under Thomas, himself a boxer of some repute, that Winstone learnt his trade.
But then I called the family, and heard that the guy had been a boxer in his twenties.
Mr Tarrant was banned from athletics meetings for winning money as a boxer.
She was a teenager when she met Joe Jackson, an aspiring musician and a boxer whose first marriage dissolved.
Tyson said he'd always considered himself a showman, even as a boxer.
William Plotnikov, a Russian-born Canadian citizen who had converted to Islam and came to Dagestan in 2010, was a boxer, like Mr. Tsarnaev.
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"It was almost like a boxer that knew he was on the ropes, because it was just a matter of time" said Jackson.
He shook the kinks from his arms and bounced on his toes like a boxer, then bent down to pick up the frame.
You can swing it like a bat or a golf club, turn it like a steering wheel, or punch with it like a boxer.
But for a boxer who believes he should be viewed as "one of the best fighters to ever live, " a career-defining rendezvous still eludes.
It could essentially create a visual representation, or heat map, of the fighting predilection of a boxer and his performance in a particular fight.
He studied engineering at Bunker Hill Community College just outside Boston, but had taken the year off to train as a boxer, sources told CNN.
Louise Walsh, from Penylan in Cardiff, drew on her own experiences as a boxer for her debut novel Fighting Pretty , published in 2008 by Seren.
But it's recognizable among the 12-to-24-year-old bracket that buys videogames like Electronic Arts' Fight Night Round 3, which features a boxer, Big E, clearly modeled after Ogbogu.
Kerkorian, a World War II pilot, a boxer and an eighth grade dropout, hung out his shingle in Las Vegas in 1962 with a small land stake.
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As if Jennings's ascent isn't strange enough, here's where it gets downright bizarre: The people in his corner insist that his day job actually helps Jennings as a boxer.
"If I could find a boxer as good as Howard Winstone I would make millions, " said the great trainer Angelo Dundee after Winstone outclassed his Cuban fighter Baby Louis.
The men backed down after Tamerlan Tsarnaev warned them he was a boxer, though he assured them he had stopped fighting because of his newly devout religious beliefs, his father said.
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Merthyr is a fine place to raise a boxer - Thomas claimed that children born in the tough valleys town were so angry that they came out with their fists clenched.
That means no tattooing a boxer's nose to make it more black, no braces for a pointer to straighten its teeth, no removing a basset hound's inner eyelid to improve its appearance.
She is the eighth of 13 children of a mother who was a registered nurse and a father, Jerome, who was a boxer known as "Kid Jerome" and later became a prominent businessman, defense documents said.
But it's recognizable among the 12-to-24-year-old bracket that buys videogames like Electronic Arts (nasdaq: ERTS - news - people )' Fight Night Round 3, which features a boxer, Big E, clearly modeled after Ogbogu.
The revival of Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy, " a play about a young man torn between his natural talent as a violinist and the fast money and fame of being a boxer, earned eight nominations, the most for any play.
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