41 years ago Roberto Duran walked out of his rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard. Read the original Boxing News ringside report from the November 25, 1980 fight
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Mike Tyson s then-trainer, Aaron Snowell, looks back on a disatrous night for the whole of Team Tyson
“WOULD Don King, one of the wisest men boxing has ever seen, put me in the corner of the most valuable brand that not only boxing, not only sport, but entertainment had to offer if I didn’t know what I was doing? Would he?”
There’s an authoritative tone to Aaron Snowell’s growl as strives to convince me of his qualifications to handle the meticulous training responsibilities of a peak Mike Tyson. His defensive riposte seems somewhat rehearsed, perhaps because it’s a rebuttal he’s forced out many times before, maybe even to himself, since February 11, 1990 and a morning in Japan that changed so many lives forever.