21.   Stanley Matthews, the son of a longtime professional featherweight boxer, Jack Matthews, was born near Stoke-on-Trent and joined the Stoke City team while a teen-ager.

22.   Stan Ward, the professional trainer for Urquidez and about a dozen other professional boxers and kick boxers, runs all the boxing classes.

23.   Suddenly, it seemed, Lennox Lewis had become a professional boxer, a man who was on balance and firing all of his weapons.

24.   Terry, who grew up in Cincinnati, had an earlier life as a professional boxer and a railroad switchman and union organizer in Chicago.

25.   The bill would also require sanctioning organizations staging bouts in the U.S. to establish consistent criteria for rating professional boxers.

26.   The few professional boxers who achieve celebrity status and contracts for multimillion-dollar title fights also benefit from the present system.

27.   The power forward spoke more like the professional boxers he so admires when he predicted a Boston victory.

28.   The prospect of watching two daughters of professional boxers windmilling their way through a fight is what really bothers serious women boxers.

29.   The promoter Don King represents more than a hundred professional boxers.

30.   The story really begins in the backwaters of West Virginia, where Donald Panoz, the son of an Italian-born professional boxer was born.