Sport: To The Finish Someone eventually gets us

Boxing finally finished with Larry Holmes last week. Just as he always did while he was heavyweight champion, Holmes kept getting up when Mike Tyson kept knocking him down in the fourth round of their title fight in Atlantic City, N.J., though the third time down the referee made him stay. The final punch Holmes threw at 38, 28 months since he lost the title he had held for seven years, was a roundhouse right that got caught in the ring ropes, straightening him up perfectly for the right fist from Tyson that knocked him into oblivion.

In the end, only...

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