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He was coming to grips with the fact that his days as a student at Mercyhurst College were numbered. For reality had finally set in on this youngster from Columbus, Ohio. It was time to turn his back on a prospective B.A. degree in physical education and accept his inevitable fate in the annals of boxing history. A calling that enabled him to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. "I was trying to decide what I was going to do after my junior year," Douglas said of that morning in 1980. I just kept looking at the phone and before I knew it I was on the phone talking to my dad. I told him that when I came home for the summer I was going to start fighting professionally."...." |
He once shared an elevator with a man he would fight in 48 hours and eventually had to introduce himself when Seamus McDonagh, the opponent, failed to recognize him. That's the way it's been for Eveander Holyfield. As the heavyweight division's No. 1 contender for 19 months, in his contractual pursuit of a title fight, his opponent has changed once, then venue and dates twice. Critics rap his body, a cruiserweight on helium, legs like a grandmother. And through it all, Holyfield works out next to the housewives, biding the time that delivered him to tonight and James Douglas...." |
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