We could've dragged this out until Friday, but we wanted you ( the media ) to have the opportunity to make your plans with the fight down the street ."
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Following his last bout, he expressed his desire to fight Juan Manuel Marquez, however Marquez turned this fight down and then the matchup was made with Maidana through Golden Boy Promotions.
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Favorite Trick is a career stalker, but at Oaklawn, Day let him get to the lead early and found himself in a fight down the stretch, where he is usually in charge.
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He is plainly working to develop _ if he has not already developed _ weapons of mass destruction, and his rap sheet does not suggest he would fight down any impulse to use them.
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But Emmanuel Steward, who is training Lewis in Detroit, explained Thursday it is a logical choice if the former WBC titlist is to meet up with Mike Tyson, also 5-feet-11, three fights down the road.
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MGM senior vice president Don Welsh, who has scaled official " capacity " for this fight down to 14, 000, said of re-signing Tyson, " If we had not gone after him, somebody else would have ."
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Rose said he expected about 11, 000 people in the 15, 000-seat outdoor arena at Caesars Palace for the fight, which was not scheduled to begin until after Tyson's fight down the street at the MGM Grand Hotel was over.
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The Democrats were happy to be joined by enough Republicans to fight down the Gramm tax cut, which essentially was the $ 350 billion, seven-year cut already approved in the House as part of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract With America.
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WBA attorney James J . Binns offered a new agreement to offer a Norris fight down the list of ranked fighters _ to No . 12 if need be _ and declare the winner the No . 1 WBA challenger.
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More importantly, Finkel said the deal Vargas agreed to would still be acceptable for a De La Hoya fight down the road, even if Vargas beats Shibata Flores Sept . 22 to win the World Boxing Association version of the 154-pound championship.
