The notorious Eugenia Williams (boxing judge)
Betty Hearns
The real deal?
In March, 48-year-old Atlantic City, N.J., municipal accounts clerk
Eugenia Williams came to Madison Square Garden thinking what fun it
would be to judge the heavyweight title fight between Evander
Holyfield and Lennox Lewis. She never imagined that scoring the bout
in Holyfield's favor would launch a thousand investigations and knock
the already wobbly sport onto the ropes. After all, Don King,
Holyfield's notorious promoter, was paying her $5,150 for the gig and
she was just an anonymous occasional fight judge who'd recently
declared bankruptcy. Why would this be any different from, for
instance, the lightweight fight she judged last December between Ivan
Robinson, a family friend, and Arturo Gatti. (She scored it for
Robinson, who won a unanimous decision.) So this time, even though
Lewis landed nearly three times as many punches as Holyfield, Williams
scored it how she saw fit: 115-113 for "The Real Deal" Holyfield.
Conflict of interest? Please. "I was just doing what I was hired to
do," she said.
Tasso
Tommy S.
>You heard about the Lincoln assassination, right?
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Link, please. ;-)
SkippyPB
OK, here you go:
http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln.html
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