Article: Girding for Norris, Brown Fights Past

Simon Brown's boxing career ought to be an open book. It could be a course offered to college seniors, a warning to those about to enter the world. Just the business aspects could be a case study.

Brown's decade-long journey in boxing, which comes to a crossroads Saturday night at Caesars Palace in a Home Box Office fight against tough Terry Norris, is a classic example that nothing in life is apt to be simple. Mostly he has been the sport's underground man, winning titles to the acclaim of no more than a cult following while being shortchanged financially by a host of boxing schemers and dreamers.

As he built a 34-1 record, Brown found his problems outside the ring: various managers, ...

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