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Article: Girding for Norris, Brown Fights Past
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- September 25, 1992
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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, ...