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The End?

By by Ralph Wiley

Sunday, June 9, 2002

"This will remind you of an execution, a murder," Emanuel Steward had warned. And so it did, the end coming with 35 seconds left in the eighth round after a right fist crashed into a bloody face whose eyes, nearly shut, had long since lost their fire. Lennox Lewis bounced so many shots off Mike Tyson's head that you began to admire Mike for taking them when he had no answer. Tyson stayed in after knowing he couldn't get off, the way 38-year-old Ali stayed in against Larry Holmes in 1980. All ...

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