Sparring with Hemingway was a book that included bouts with the undisputed champion of what weight class from 1980 to 1987?
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Sparring with Hemingway Sparring with Hemingway is a book written by Budd Schulberg consisting of a collection of Schulberg's articles on boxing spanning nearly half a century. The book includes descriptions of fights between Marciano and Archie Moore; Ali and Foreman; Leonard and Duran; and Hagler and Hearns. A review of the book in the "New York Times" praises Schulberg's technical expertise on the subject of boxing. A "Chicago Tribune" review of the book states: The pieces in the present volume range over the whole of Schulberg's career and include those drawn from his days as a reporter for the New York Post as well as assignments for Sports Illustrated and other publications. He chronicles the demise of Archie Moore, the implacable assaults of Rocky Marciano, the supernova-like appearance of Cassius Clay and his psych job on the theretofore-invincible Sonny Liston, the saga of Mike Tyson (predicting long before Tyson's conviction on rape charges that "the biggest fight of all may still be Tyson vs. Tyson") and the resurrection of George Foreman: "Win or lose, this 260 pounds of fighting preacher has proved what . . . F. Scott Fitzgerald denied when he wrote, `There are no second acts in American lives.' "
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler Marvelous Marvin Hagler (born Marvin Nathaniel Hagler; May 23, 1954) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 1987. He reigned as the undisputed middleweight champion from 1980 to 1987, making twelve defenses of that title, and currently holds the highest knockout percentage of all undisputed middleweight champions, at 78%. At six years and seven months, his reign as undisputed middleweight champion is the second longest of the last century, behind only Tony Zale, who reigned during World War II. In 1982, annoyed that network announcers often did not refer to him by his nickname, "Marvelous", Hagler legally changed his name to Marvelous Marvin Hagler.
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Terry McGovern (boxer) Terrible Terry McGovern (March 9, 1880 – February 22, 1918) was an American professional boxer who held the World Bantamweight and Featherweight Championships. He was born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania as John Terrence McGovern. He was managed by Sam Harris through most of his career, and who remained a friend throughout his life. Many boxing historians considered McGovern's greatest attributes his punching ability and signature charges rather than his boxing style or defensive technique. That the majority of his wins were by knockout speaks to the power of his punch.
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Muhammad Ali vs. Larry Holmes Larry Holmes vs. Muhammad Ali, billed as "The Last Hurrah", was a professional boxing match contested on October 2, 1980 in Las Vegas for the WBC and Lineal Heavyweight Championships.
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Donald Curry Donald Curry (born Donald Sample; September 7, 1961) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 1991, and in 1997. He held the undisputed welterweight title from 1985 to 1986; the WBC super welterweight title from 1988 to 1989; and challenged once for the IBF and lineal middleweight titles in 1990.
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Isaac Chilemba Miguel Isaac Chilemba Zuze (born 17 May 1987) is a Malawian professional boxer who held the IBO super-middleweight title from 2010 to 2011, and challenged for the WBA (Undisputed), IBF, and WBO light-heavyweight titles in 2016.
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James Tillis James Tillis (born July 5, 1957) is a former professional boxer. Known as "Quick", he was known for his fast hand speed. Tillis challenged for the WBA world heavyweight title in 1981, but was defeated by fifteen round unanimous decision to Mike Weaver. Tillis was the first man to go the distance with a prime Mike Tyson in 1986. He holds notable wins over Ron Stander by TKO 7 in 1980, and the hard punching Earnie Shavers by ten-round decision in 1982. Tillis fought for the last time in 2001 at the age of 44.
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Samuel Peter Samuel Okon Peter (born September 6, 1980) is a Nigerian-American professional boxer who held the WBC heavyweight title in 2008. He rose to prominence in his early career following a string of knockout wins, at a time when the titles of the heavyweight division were largely fragmented. In March 2008, Peter won a portion of the world heavyweight championship by knocking out Oleg Maskaev to win the WBC title. In October, in what would be his only defense of the title, Peter lost to a returning Vitali Klitschko, who stopped him in eight rounds. Peter is known for his rivalry with the Klitschko brothers, having faced Wladimir twice (in 2005 and 2010) and Vitali once.
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Joey Jacobs Joseph "Joey" Jacobs (born 1 October 1960) is a British former boxer who as an amateur was ABA lightweight champion in 1986, and as a professional was British super featherweight champion in 1990, going on to fight for a world title.
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Zhang Xiyan Zhang Xiyan(; April 22, 1980 in Harbin, Heilongjiang ) is the most successful female Chinese amateur and professional boxer. As of July 2010, Zhang has won gold medal at 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships in the Bantamweight (54 kg),and Zhang turned professional in 2005,and won WBA and WIBA world titles in 2006 and 2007. Zhang claimed China's first professional boxing world champion.
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Buster Douglas James "Buster" Douglas (born April 7, 1960) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1990, and 1996 to 1999. He is best known for his stunning upset of Mike Tyson on February 11, 1990 in Tokyo to win the undisputed heavyweight title. At the time Tyson was undefeated and considered to be the best boxer in the world, as well as one of the most feared heavyweight champions in history due to his domination of the division over the previous three years. The only casino to make odds for the fight (all others declining to do so as they considered the fight such a foregone conclusion) had Douglas as a 42-to-1 underdog for the fight, making his victory, in commentator Jim Lampley's words, "The biggest upset in the history of heavyweight championship fights." Douglas held the title for eight months and two weeks, losing on October 25, 1990 to Evander Holyfield via third-round knockout, in his only title defense.
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Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks was a boxing match which took place on Monday June 27, 1988. Both men were undefeated and each had a claim to being the legitimate heavyweight champion. At the time, Tyson held the belts of all three of the major sanctioning organizations (World Boxing Council, World Boxing Association, and International Boxing Federation) while Spinks was the "Ring" champion and was considered the lineal champion.
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Igor Rostorotsky Igor Dmitrievich Rostorotsky (Russian: Игорь Дмитриевич Ростороцкий ; born 4 February 1962) is a retired Soviet wrestler who competed in the Greco-Roman superheavyweight division. He won both the world and European titles in 1985 and 1987. He was the first, and one of only two wrestlers who defeated Aleksandr Karelin, 1–0 at the 1987 Soviet Championships.
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Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis Evander Holyfield vs. Lennox Lewis, billed as "Undisputed", was a professional boxing match contested on March 13, 1999 for the WBA, WBC, IBF and "Lineal" Heavyweight Championships.
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Charley Goldman Charley Goldman (December 22, 1887, in Warsaw, Poland – November 11, 1968) was a famed boxing trainer who trained five world champions. Goldman's most famous pupil was the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Rocky Marciano.
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Herbert Bauch Herbert Bauch (born May 18, 1957 in Berlin) is a retired boxer, who represented East Germany at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There he won the bronze medal in the light heavyweight division (– 81 kg), after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual gold medalist Slobodan Kačar of Yugoslavia. Two years earlier he captured the bronze medal at the second World Championships in Belgrade.
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Karim Mayfield Karim Rasheed Mayfield (born December 14, 1980) is an American professional boxer who fights at welterweight. He is a former NABO junior welterweight champion.
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Jermain Taylor Jermain Taylor (born August 11, 1978) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2014. He remains the most recent undisputed middleweight champion, having won the WBA (Undisputed), WBC, IBF, WBO, "Ring" magazine, and lineal titles in 2005 by beating Bernard Hopkins, and in doing so ending Hopkins' twelve-year reign as middleweight champion. This made Taylor the first boxer in history to claim each title from all four major boxing sanctioning organizations in a single fight (Hopkins had won his world titles separately between 1995 to 2004). He has also held the IBF middleweight title twice.
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Dmitry Pirog Dmitry Yurievich Pirog (Russian: Дмитрий Юрьевич Пирог ; born 27 June 1980) is a Russian former professional boxer who competed from 2005 to 2012. He held the WBO middleweight title from 2010 to 2012, and although his career was cut short due to a debilitating back injury, he is one of the few professional boxers to win a world title and retire undefeated.
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Barry Audia Barry Alan Audia (born August 1, 1957) (alias "The Pennington Pounder") is a former professional boxer from Pennington Gap, Virginia. He began his boxing career in the early 1970s and turned professional in 1980. His professional career lasted until his official resignation in 1987. Audia fought as a middleweight for the duration of his career. His ranking as a boxer peaked in the mid-1980s at number 7 in the world.
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Anthony Robles Anthony Robles (born July 20, 1988) is a wrestler who won the 2010–11 NCAA individual wrestling championship in the 125-pound weight class despite being born with only one leg. He is the author of the book "Unstoppable: From Underdog to Undefeated: How I Became a Champion" (Gotham Books), which went on-sale September 27, 2012.
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Mike Tyson vs. Tony Tucker Mike Tyson vs. Tony Tucker, billed as "The Ultimate", was professional boxing match contested on August 1, 1987 for the WBA, WBC and IBF Heavyweight championships.