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Article: Boxer Pulls No Punches at Lorton
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- The Washington Post
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- December 19, 1987
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Convicted murderer Charles Jefferson sized up boxing star Thomas
Hearns at Lorton Reformatory yesterday and almost sighed with
disappointment. The inmate had wanted some of his charges to get a
lick at the "Hit Man from Detroit."
"He could get his head hit down here," said Jefferson, coach of
the prison's boxing team, which consists of men with much to be
frustrated about-convictions of first-degree murder, armed robbery
and cocaine dealing. "We'd love to have him change up so I could sic
some fighters over."
The middleweight boxing champion politely declined to spar, but
he added "all of the guys want to get at me. They'd probably do
well."
Instead, Hearns spent yesterday afternoon ...