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Article: Boxing: Strange game of Hide and seek over money
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 22, 1994
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CopyrightCopyright 1994 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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TWENTY YEARS ago almost to the week, the south Londoner John
Daly pulled together perhaps the most exotic and successful
promotion in boxing history when he paired Muhammed Ali with George
Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle. But in the early hours of
tomorrow morning here, Daly looks set to produce one of the great
turkeys of all time when Herbie Hide defends his World Boxing
Organisation heavyweight title against Tommy Morrison in the fight
which, it seems, virtually nobody wants to see.
The premise of the promotion was sound: with all that loose
money floating around in Hong Kong, who cares to risk running in
Atlantic City or New York? But Daly and his local partner, one
William J ...
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