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Article: Jackson has a rallying cry vs. Lewis: `No surrender'
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 5, 1994
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ATLANTIC CITY -- Phil Jackson has been in one important fight as
he prepares for tomorrow night's business meeting with undefeated
World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis at the
Atlantic City Convention Center. By his own admission, he quit that
night. This is not something you normally put on your resume.
Jackson is not particularly proud of his actions on June 26, 1992,
when he lay on his back in the fourth round and made a conscious
decision to act unconscious after Razor Ruddock knocked him down. As
with everything in boxing, though, there is a logical explanation for
his premature siesta -- Jackson didn't want to fight anymore.
It wasn't Ruddock he didn't want to fight. ...