21.   Robert De Niro won an Oscar for his portrayal of the real-life middleweight champion, Jake LaMotta.

22.   Roy Jones Jr., the undefeated World Boxing Council super middleweight champion, is booked against light heavyweight Merqui Sosa in an intriguing feature bout.

23.   Singer Bono wore a hooded sweatshirt and a boxing robe in honor of Irish middleweight champion Steve Collins.

24.   So has International Boxing Federation middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins and thousands of others known around the world as Philly fighters.

25.   Suddenly he breaks into a flurry of punches, finishing with a short hook that would send the present middleweight champions to their doom.

26.   That was the case with International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion Roy Jones Jr. after his rapid-fire destruction of Tony Thornton.

27.   That was unfortunate, but the IBF middleweight champion asked for what happened, and so did Allen.

28.   The company lost several high-profile legal battles, including ones with middleweight champion Bernard Hopkins and former bantamweight champion Wayne McCullough.

29.   The International Boxing Federation super middleweight champion wept openly that day, right there in front of everyone.

30.   Well, not long thereafter he had a proposal for World Boxing Organization super middleweight champion Steve Collins that was also accepted.