21. American boxing fans, who view British heavyweight champions as an oxymoron, yawned. 22. And Foreman, the last heavyweight champion people got excited about, was there at ringside, telling pay-per-view fans that Holyfield should not be allowed to fight. 23. And against Evander Holyfield, now the two-thirds heavyweight champion, standing there and fighting is a mistake, as Mike Tyson twice discovered. 24. And he went on, winning, losing and spending more time on the canvas than any heavyweight champion before or since. 25. And he follows a long line of Irish-American world heavyweight champions-- John L. Sullivan, James Corbett, Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, said Cobert. 26. And the unifying symbol has become John Ruiz, who became the first Hispanic world heavyweight boxing champion with his victory over Evander Holyfield in Las Vegas Saturday night. 27. And the newly crowned heavyweight champion of the world shivered again, even as he retold the plot to us. 28. And then there is the way World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis looks at it. 29. And so, Saturday night in Atlantic City, N.J., Evander Holyfield, once heavyweight champion of the world, met Ray Mercer in a pay-TV fight. 30. And while he is the German heavyweight champion, he failed in two bids to beat Henry Akinwande of England for the European title. |
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