The Dewey Bozella story

Much appreciated. Watching with a hot coffee and a couple of hot-cross buns right now :good

 

****in quality, cheers

 

Thanks cool-cat. I posted this in the Australian forum also because it's a story that deserves to be seen.

Also found this >>>


There were actually a couple thousand fans in the seats. There had been enough pre-fight buzz to warrant that. President Obama called Bozella on Thursday. Recently, a TV station had had him run up the steps in Philadelphia, a la Rocky.

Then, Bozella, looking slow and . . . well, old, for the first two rounds of the scheduled four, shook off the butterflies, started pursuing Hopkins and became the clearly superior fighter. That's assuming this whole thing was not a put-up job, which would be horrible, but certainly not beneath boxing's standards.

In the final round, as the 52-year-old chased the 30-year-old, Hopkins quickly established a new record for losing his mouthpiece. When boxers are tired, that is one trick they go to, because the referee stops the fight and takes the mouthpiece over to the corner for cleaning before hostilities are resumed. There was no way of knowing whether Hopkins was, indeed, spitting it out, or he just had a bad fit. It fit quite nicely, it seemed, in the first three rounds.

Hopkins lost the mouthpiece three times before being assessed a point penalty. Then he lost it three more times before the round, and fight, ended. The sixth time was especially memorable.

Bozella had Hopkins in the corner and was throwing punches. Suddenly, the mouthpiece flew out again and this time, Hopkins tried to catch it. He looked like an outfielder bobbling a fly ball. It dropped to the canvas, but Bozella had had enough and kept on punching, landing his best right hand of the fight just as the buzzer sounded, ending the fight.

The judges quickly called it a unanimous decision for Bozella, and the ring became a crowd of cameras and microphones. Bozella was ready for that, too.

"This was all I wanted, my dream come true," he said. "I used to lay in my cell, dreaming this would happen."

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