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March 30, 2006 | Steve Springer, Times Staff Writer
FOR America's big-league sports, L.A. was a distant outpost for the first half of the 20th century, impressive for an off-season vacation, impractical as a home base. Before jet travel, any team moving to the West Coast would have presented a scheduling nightmare. The Rams, who played only once a week, were the first to make the leap, coming in the 1940s. The Dodgers followed in the late 1950s, the Lakers not until 1960. But boxing was different. Unencumbered by the need to regularly transport a full team a thousand miles or more, boxing found its way here even before the start of the last century.
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May 12, 1989
Bantamweight Alain Limarola of France stopped Finland's Antti Yuntamaa after seven rounds of a scheduled 10-rounder in the first professional boxing match in the Soviet Union.
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August 23, 2008 | Mike Downey, Chicago Tribune
BEIJING -- Oh, how Howard Cosell would mock this. Having followed the halcyon days of Cassius and Smokin' Joe and Big George and the young Sugar Ray, how it would have pained the perspicacious Howard to watch these pusillanimous pugilists of our 2008 U.S. Olympic boxing team land with a thud and a dud. The latest and last victim was our flamingo-legged heavyweight, Deontay Wilder, who brought literal meaning to "never laid a glove on him"...
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January 14, 1999 | VINCE KOWALICK, Times Staff Writer
Lance Whitaker guards himself closely and can be as elusive as a shadow. If only he can perfect those traits in the boxing ring. Whitaker would be the tallest world heavyweight champion in history, as well as the first from the San Fernando Valley. But that's a very tall order. Whitaker, 6 feet 8 inches tall and a chiseled 240 pounds, has plodded a slow path as a professional and appears a longshot at reaching the summit of boxing's most lucrative and storied division.
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May 5, 2012 | By Lance Pugmire
ROUND 1: Referee Tony Weeks gave final instructions, and the fight's underway. Mayweather throws a left hook. Mayweather jabs. Cotto keeps his head down, leading with his left. They're separated twice. Cotto tries a hard right, Mayweather dodges. It happens again. Mayweather sneaks a left to the body. Judges: Robert Hoyle, 10-9 Mayweather; Patricia Morse Jarman, 10-9 Mayweather; Dave Moretti, 10-9 Mayweather. ROUND 2: Cotto picks up Mayweather and leans him to ropes.
ENTERTAINMENT
July 25, 2004 | Leslie Gornstein, Special to The Times
A small wooden cabinet went up for auction on EBay. Inside were two locks of hair, one granite slab, one dried rosebud, one goblet, two wheat pennies, one candlestick and, allegedly, one "dibbuk," a kind of spirit popular in Yiddish folklore. The seller, a Missouri college student named Iosif Nietzke, described the container as a "haunted Jewish wine cabinet box" that had plagued several owners with rotten luck and a spate of bizarre paranormal stunts.