1.   When he collapsed with brain damage during the world super-middleweight title fight he could so easily have died.

2.   No boxing promoter will stage a world fight unless he is guaranteed coverage.

3.   A seat at a world title fight is worth something, but the opportunity to give a toy to an underprivileged kid is priceless.

4.   But the Acaries brothers in France got a judge in Paris to overrule the US court, ordering the WBA to continue calling the event a world title fight.

5.   Eight world title fights.

6.   For the price of a toy, you can have a seat at a world title fight.

7.   In two other world title fights, Terry Norris and Felix Trinidad knocked out overmatched opponents.

8.   It is not often that a world championship fight does not get top billing on a card, but convention is tossed out when Arturo Gatti fights.

9.   It was not good for McCall to be thrust into the pressure of a world title fight seven weeks after his body had stopped poisoning itself with crack cocaine.

10.   None of it, however, can compare to the rush Adair got when she became the first female referee to work a major world championship fight.