1.   After the first bout of verbiage I disappeared inside my room and slept for a day.

2.   And the more he watches footage from the first Holyfield bout, the more Lewis feels like a winner, if not an official victor.

3.   And while Ali and Frazier fought three times, nothing tops that first bout.

4.   Ask Thomas Hearns, who learned that painful lesson when Leonard, the boxer, turned puncher, in their first bout nearly two decades ago.

5.   Because of a mistake during the draw, American super-heavyweight Lawrence Clay-Bey will have an easier matchup in his first scheduled bout than he expected.

6.   After their first bout, Holyfield was diagnosed with a heart problem, a diagnosis that somehow was later changed, and later said his shoulder was injured.

7.   But he contracted a stomach virus the night before his first bout and lost.

8.   But he injured a shoulder in the first bout.

9.   But it was the confirmation of labor secretary that provided Republicans with the venue for the first bout.

10.   Evander Holyfield also was dismissed in the same terms in the weeks before he overcame impossibly long odds to beat Tyson in their first bout.