11.   He is like so many in professional boxing, a bottom feeder who is here to make a payday at his own expense.

12.   He is angry because Castro barred professional boxing in his native Cuba, depriving his father of a livelihood.

13.   I got burned out on professional boxing a long time ago.

14.   In case you missed it, Christy Martin,the first woman to make a mark in professional boxing, was upset by Sumya Anani recently in Florida.

15.   It was a message that could not be missed, even in the world of professional boxing, where nothing is ever as it seems.

16.   It is no different in the world of professional boxing.

17.   Legislation is pending in the Senate that would overhaul professional boxing from the personal contracts boxers sign with promoters to the rating system that ranks fighters.

18.   No city will displace Las Vegas as the capital of professional boxing any time soon.

19.   Outlawing blows to the head would signal the end of professional boxing, where everyone hits to the head and all combinations begin with a shot to the chops.

20.   Professional boxing has always been a helter-skelter arrangement, of course, full of chicanery, sanctimony and larceny.