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De La Hoya Stays With The Plan In Easy Win He didn’t get the knockout, but he got the work. • In Oscar De La Hoya’s quest to stay sharp for his September rematch against boxing’s unbeaten, pound-for-pound king Floyd Mayweather Jr., the “Golden Boy” mounted a sustained attack filled with aggression and scoring left hands to dominate Steve Forbes in front of a capacity hometown crowd of 27,000 at the Home Depot Center’s soccer stadium in Carson. —Lance Pugmire, Los Angeles Times

Legend About Famed Boxing Writer Turns Out To Be Untrue Pat Putnam, one of the most recognizable boxing writers of the past half-century, told at least one false tale about fighting. • His own. • Putnam, who died in 2005 had been a long time writer for Sports Illustrated. One of the most fascinating stories he ever told was the one about being a Marine veteran, a prisoner during the Korean War and the winner of four Purple Hearts and a Navy Cross. • But as explained in this piece by Dan Lamothe of the Marine Corps Times, Putnam made the whole thing up. —By Tom Weir & Reid Cherner, blogs.usatoday.com

Measure Sought To Legalize White-Collar Boxing Shows In New York Two boxers traded jabs and feints in the raised ring, a long way from the days when rough kids fought their way out of rough neighbourhoods. • The famed Gleason’s Gym in Brooklyn draws a different crowd now. About three-quarters of the customers are white-collar professionals. —The Canadian Press

(De La Hoya Photo by Tom Hogan/Golden Boy Promotions; Putnam: John Iacono/SI)