Vinny Pazienza

Vinny Pazienza, who suffered two broken bones in his neck in a car accident last fall, said that he will give up his WBA junior middleweight title.

Still punching with hands of stone but burdened with legs of granite in the final seven rounds, Roberto Duran left the ring Saturday night an exhausted, disgusted unanimous-decision loser to Vinny Pazienza. At 43 and the underdog, Duran was good for half a fight before 10,149 at the MGM Grand, snapping off more hard left jabs and brutal overhand rights to the head in the first six rounds than almost anybody thought he could.

Vinny Pazienza bounced back from a stormy first round to score a technical knockout over Vinny Burgese in the 10th round of a nationally televised junior welterweight bout at Atlantic City, N.J.

Vinny Pazienza, in his second bout since suffering a broken neck in an auto accident on Nov. 12, 1991, scored a technical knockout against Brett Lally in the sixth round of their middleweight fight in Ledyard, Conn. Pazienza is 33-5; Lally fell to 31-8.

Vinny Pazienza, in his second bout since suffering a broken neck in an auto accident on Nov. 12, 1991, scored a technical knockout against Brett Lally in the sixth round of their middleweight fight in Ledyard, Conn. Pazienza is 33-5; Lally fell to 31-8.

Boxing trainer Kevin Rooney took a serious pay cut when Mike Tyson banished him. Rooney, who made $1.5 million when he worked Tyson's corner against Michael Spinks, earned $1,500 when he worked a fight last weekend for Vinny Pazienza, a former lightweight champion. "Sure, it's different," Rooney told Newsday's Wallace Matthews. "Vinny Pazienza is not Mike Tyson. Nobody's like Mike Tyson. But Vinny Pazienza is a good fighter, and I think I can help him be a better fighter." After Pazienza stopped Jake Carollo at 1:57 of the second round, Rooney raised his fighter's hand overhead, as he had done with Tyson.

A lot of people say they don't understand boxing--or boxers. Why is that? Vinny Pazienza, former International Boxing Federation lightweight champion, who hinted that he would announce his retirement at a news conference Friday in Cranston, R.I., turned the tables on the media and announced that he will fight on. The Associated Press reported that Pazienza's cryptic bobbing and weaving fooled even his family and close associates.

Vinny Pazienza, who suffered two broken bones in his neck in a car accident last fall, said that he will give up his WBA junior middleweight title.

Vinny Pazienza, the World Boxing Assn.'s junior-welterweight champion, is hospitalized in good condition in Warwick, R.I., with neck and back injuries as the result of a traffic accident, forcing his Jan. 10 title defense to be called off. Pazienza was a passenger in a car that hit another car after skidding across U.S. 1 Tuesday, police said.

A lot of people say they don't understand boxing--or boxers. Why is that? Vinny Pazienza, former International Boxing Federation lightweight champion, who hinted that he would announce his retirement at a news conference Friday in Cranston, R.I., turned the tables on the media and announced that he will fight on. The Associated Press reported that Pazienza's cryptic bobbing and weaving fooled even his family and close associates.

Boxing trainer Kevin Rooney took a serious pay cut when Mike Tyson banished him. Rooney, who made $1.5 million when he worked Tyson's corner against Michael Spinks, earned $1,500 when he worked a fight last weekend for Vinny Pazienza, a former lightweight champion. "Sure, it's different," Rooney told Newsday's Wallace Matthews. "Vinny Pazienza is not Mike Tyson. Nobody's like Mike Tyson. But Vinny Pazienza is a good fighter, and I think I can help him be a better fighter." After Pazienza stopped Jake Carollo at 1:57 of the second round, Rooney raised his fighter's hand overhead, as he had done with Tyson.