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Article: LEE'S CAREER A BALL OF CONFUSION
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- June 21, 1989
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PHOTO DON LEE
THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION.
People threw beer on Don Lee and Ron Collison in Metairie, La., Monday night on national cable television.
Beer, paper cups, ice cubes, a ceramic coffee mug, a couple of folding chairs, and racial slurs were among the items hurled into the ring.
The Gary pro boxer and his Milwaukee manager looked on in disbelief at the bedlam that culminated their tumultuous stay in this suburb of New Orleans.
The North American Boxing Federation took Lee's super middleweight title belt, and draped it around the waist of Paul Whittaker, a hometown boy who owns a chain of jewelry stores.
Whittaker had been beaten so severely ...