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Article: Send in the clowns.(heavyweight boxer Peter McNeely to fight Mike Tyson)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- August 14, 1995
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THE BRIGHT AFTERNOON SUN STREAMS through a wall of windows, baking the old, un-air-conditioned gym until the smell of fresh sweat mingles with the lingering scents of cigars and Xtra Pine. The South Shore Boxing Club, some 20 miles south of Boston, was once a Civil War nail factory, and it is tiny. It barely contains the two rings, nine punching bags and the 6-foot-2, 229-pound hulk who is frantically beating up his shadow. His name is Peter McNeeley and next week in Las Vegas, if all goes according to plan, he will become a footnote in boxing history. It is over his prostrate body that former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will begin his comeback campaign.
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