Norway’s Marit Bjorgen won the opening race of the World Cup cross-country ski season, winning a women’s freestyle event in front of a crowd of 150,000 in Duesseldorf, Germany. The Times endorses one incumbent and three newcomers for the Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees. Now a highly-rated contender, Berbick earned his first world title chance against Holmes in 1981, but lost a unanimous 15-round decision, failing to win a single round on one judge’s card. Radha Blank’s ‘Forty-Year-Old Version’ on Netflix highlights racism in the theater industry. In 1991, Berbick was involved in a street brawl with Holmes, whom he had mocked as the latter was leaving the venue of his earlier stoppage victory over Tim Anderson. Roger Federer rallied in a third-set tiebreaker to reach the Swiss Indoors final in Basel, beating Thailand’s Paradorn Srichaphan, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (5), for his 23rd consecutive victory. Third-seeded Mario Ancic beat wild-card entry Ernest Gulbis, 6-2, 6-3, to reach the St. Petersburg Open final in Russia, where he will face defending champion Thomas Johansson. Instead Berbick relentlessly pursued his opponent until Tate could take no more. Berbick gained more credibility by winning the World Boxing Council heavyweight title in 1986 with a decision over Pinklon Thomas. Cintron stops Suarez for IBF welterweight title. Berbick had sought to brawl with Tyson, who became the youngest champion in boxing at the age of 20. Get the latest news from the world of sport along with the best opinion from our outstanding team of sport writers, direct to your inbox every Friday, Latest news from the world of sport, along with the best in opinion from our Where to vote. He punches pretty hard.”. 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Approximately 200 players are eligible to file by the Nov. 11 deadline, and free agents can start talking money with all teams the next day. Sadly for Berbick his problems were only just beginning. Gicquel will play fourth-seeded Richard Gasquet today in an all-French final. Trevor Berbick, a former heavyweight champion best remembered for beating Muhammad Ali in Ali’s last fight, was found dead Saturday in a church courtyard in Kingston, Jamaica. Garciaparra, Bonds and Thomas are free agents. Maria Sharapova, unbeaten since August, reached the Generali Ladies final with a 7-5, 7-5 victory over Patty Schnyder of Switzerland in Linz, Austria. Suarez tried to continue, but Cintron pummeled him with shots to the head. Johansson beat another wild-card player, Igor Kunitsyn, 6-3, 7-6 (3) to advance to the final. Review: In Netflix’s terrific ‘Forty-Year-Old Version,’ Radha Blank finds art in all the right places. Eight months later Berbick unwittingly provided one of the most indelible images of world heavyweight title history, as he careered drunkenly around the ring after being hit by a Tyson left hook. "Then I'll beat Weaver, and then I'll probably quit. Bjorgen, the defending World Cup overall champion, finished the 800 meters through downtown Duesseldorf in 1 minute 46.9 seconds. Top-ranked Federer gets 23rd consecutive victory. Berbick won the WBC heavyweight title when he defeated another ’Lost Generation’ fighter, Pinklon Thomas, whose career was hampered by drug problems, in March 1986. Berbick’s colourful and increasingly combustible life came to an end this weekend when he was discovered reportedly killed with a weapon such as a hatchet in the village of Norwich, Jamaica at the recorded age of 52. Ali said he wanted to fight WBA heavyweight champion Mike Weaver. Berbick conceded: “I was trying to prove to myself I could take his best shots. Trevor Berbick, a former heavyweight champion best remembered for beating Muhammad Ali in Ali’s last fight, was found dead Saturday in a church courtyard in Kingston, Jamaica. After losing the heavyweight crown to Mike Tyson, Berbick floundered in the ring in subsequent big fights and his life outside the ring spiraled downhill. Oakland pitcher Barry Zito and Washington’s Alfonso Soriano are the biggest names available in this year’s free-agent class. Berbick wasn't able to knock Ali down and the final bell went. The deadlines were eliminated in baseball’s new labor contract. Berbick was listed as 52, according to boxing records, but various other sources claimed he was anywhere from 49 to 56. Trevor Berbick will be best remembered as Muhammad Ali’s last opponent, Mike Tyson’s first world title victim and Larry Holmes’ unlikely challenger in a Florida parking lot. 14, California voters will be asked for more borrowing to keep stem cell research going. Your guide to the 2020 election in California. One month shy of his 40th birthday, Ali was long past his prime. 40 Black playwrights on the theater industry’s insidious racism. Once asked to explain the discrepancy, Berbick said, “I’m a spirit. In the past, players had to re-sign by Dec. 7 (or Jan. 8 if offered salary arbitration) or else they could not return to their former teams until May 1. Berbick, who finished 50-11-1 with 33 knockouts in a career that stretched from 1976 to 2000, was convicted of misdemeanor assault, raping a family baby sitter and second-degree grand theft in the 1990s. Kermit Cintron stopped a nearly defenseless Mark Suarez in the fifth round with a series of combinations to win the vacant IBF welterweight title at West Palm Beach, Fla. Cintron (27-1, 25 KOs), of Puerto Rico, forced Riverside’s Suarez (25-3) to take a knee and an eight-count. But while Berbick fought against the greats of three different eras, ultimately his own career was destined to belong among the ‘Lost Generation’ of wayward and often tragic heavyweights. I have no age.”. Outside the ring his problems mounted. Frustratingly inconsistent, Berbick would work his way back to claim the title, but despite holding the Canadian heavyweight crown as recently as 1999, he never fully got over his defeat to Tyson. The Dodgers’ Nomar Garciaparra, San Francisco’s Barry Bonds and Oakland’s Frank Thomas topped 59 players who filed for free agency. Berbick ended Ali’s career in 1981, winning a 10-round decision over the ageing and ailing former champion in an ill-conceived contest in Nassau optimistically dubbed the ’Drama in the Bahamas’. © Irish Examiner Ltd, Linn Dubh, Assumption Road, Blackpool, Cork. Proposition 14 asks voters to approve $5.5 billion in general obligation bonds for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, known as CIRM, for stem cell research. “I came out all right for an old man,” Ali shrugged afterwards. "I should beat Berbick easy just moving and sticking," he said. South Korea’s Olympic triple gold medalist Ahn Hyun-soo took his second 1,500-meter win in two weeks at a short-track speedskating World Cup meet in Jeonju, South Korea.
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