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>> It’s two hours before Adam Levine’s first amateur fight in the Vermont State Golden Gloves Championship, and the Dartmouth University senior has a lot going against him. He has driven all day from his native New York City, where he was lecturing on the canonization of Jesus Christ in art history. His contact lenses never arrived from the ophthalmologist, so all he sees are fuzzy figures. And because his light heavyweight class was filled, he volunteered to box in the heavyweight class. —Stan Grossfeld, www.boston.com
>> Now Halloran, 44, is winning plaudits for a new boxing book, “Irish Thunder: The Hard Life and Times of Micky Ward,” based on the life of the Lowell native whose trilogy of fights against champion Arturo Gatti captured the imagination of sports fans worldwide. —Rich Fahey, www.boston.com
(Levine photo by Joseph Mehling ’69)
THIS IS WHY I LOVE BOXING
>> I think it was during the hellacious ninth round of the first encounter between Micky Ward and Arturo Gatti in 2002 that Larry Merchant, calling the action for HBO, would say that he was ‘humbled’ by what was taking place in front of him. • Well, after what I witnessed Saturday night at the Home Depot Center in Carson, California between Israel Vazquez and Rafael Marquez, now it’s my turn… —Steve Kim, maxboxing.com
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