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Sat 07 Jul 2008Scrupulous scribe of the sweet science
SPORT:Classic chronicle of the four fighters who held the boxing world in awe throughout the 1980s, writes Keith Duggan.
THROUGHOUT THE troubled 1980s, the quartet of Sugar Ray Leonard, Marvin Hagler, Tommy Hearns and Roberto Duran staged a series of title fights that may well have represented a last, glorious stand for the sweet science. And, with a sense of timing that any of the protagonists would appreciate, George Kimball has written an account of their fascinating, interwoven rivalries that is part memoir and part tribute to the bravery, the absurd extravagance and the killer one-liners that defined the best of 20th-century boxing.
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