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Sugar Ray Leonard: 'I felt safe in the ring. My heart turned icy'
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Quote:Maybe Duran and his handlers had his money on Sugar Ray....?
I did think of that also.

Quote:Marvin Hagler kicked Leonard's ass

Marvelous Marvin,in his time,had the biggest friggin' muscles I'd had ever seen on a boxer.I can still picture his bulging back muscles....a perfectly molded body.
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Magda Hassan Wrote:Maybe Duran and his handlers had his money on Sugar Ray....?
Just saying.
I used to be the one to put the bets on for the jockeys and trainers when I worked in that industry.
Plenty of skill and sportsmanship but even more theater and money. Big sloshing buckets of black money laundering.

Yup.

Raging Bull.

However, saying "No mas" and quitting in the ring, risked the fight being declared void and noone getting paid....
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."

Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon

"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
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