April 10, 1984 - THE AQUINAS - Page 13 sports f'

. . ~orts CQrner C- . ·requires .Gangsters top League .-', .' .. RON HAMPSEY Aquinas Sports Staff new. com,mlss'zoner . Action was heated in intramural basketball this BY RON HAMPSEY . weeki as the regular 'season . ',,' Aquinas Sports Staff begins to approach its finale. Who is the champion of the ~orld? This In the A-League, the is a question .being asked by boxing fans allover the MuffY Hunters defeated the country. The boxing world is now being floode~ with Ice Cubes, the Suns of various new honors and titles held by such men as Darkness.easily beat (WBA), Tim Witherspoon (WBC) and Wieldmans, and the Hat­ (IBF). Most people still consider.Holmes ons rolled over a the best heavyweight in the world. Why then, was he shorthanded Friedman's stripped of his WBC title, and now must.fight in. an . squad. In other action, the unsanctioned title defense?' . .Hummers beat Pearl . . Last fall the WBC stnpped Holmes of his title after Necklace, and the 308 he refused to fight the number-one contender. Instead, Purple Bishops continued he decided to go after a bigger purse by fighting Marvis winning by beating the Frazier. Money. Isn't this what the WBA, WBC apd. Rolling Rockers. IBF are based on anyway? How can Holmes not be Louie's 'J,'urbins, the ranked in the Top 10 by the WBA, which is the usual Rodney Dangerfields of the Iguideline for judging the legitimacy of a title contender? ,B-League, gained some The answer is simple. By keeping their titles separate, respect this week by . the WBA and WEC are raking in more revenue for beating the previously fifth-· themselves. So let's face it, why should the WBC ranked unbeaten Trashmen condemn Holmes for doing something they themselves The Vibe-Raiders defeated ' practice? More money. Don King and Bob 'Arum are Halfway, and the Hitmen self-made millionaires from promoting the big bouts. were beaten by th~. Hooters. Now we tune into a fight and there on the ring floor is The Doops played and a Budweiser logo. Tell me boxing hasn't gone . split two games this commercial. Boxing has done everything to weekend. Led by"Ray .commercialize the sport except have the bloody fighters Ainsworth and Gerry Riley, do a pitch for Band-Aids in between rounds. the Doops easily beat G.C.. . It's time to reorganize. I hate to have to be the one to Squires. , . tell you, but the boxing fan isn't going to take this much The upset of the week longer. The fans don't care who holds the WBA, WBC, also occured in C-League. IBF USBA ESPN, TWA, AA or whatever other titles .The Yingslingers, with the the proJTlot~rs c~n dream up. ,I'm o~ly telling ~o,u this so aid of Jim Howard, John that something can be done for boxmg before It s too Bentz and a broken rim, late. Boxing- has too many skeletons in its closets. (Le. downed the Belly ,men. Photo !lY Mike Frederick . Duk Koo Kim, whenever Muhammed Ali speaks). ~et' s A member ofJones, a C-league team, puts up a shot not imagine the corruption involved by having more 1M RANKINGS over Leo Burke in last week's action. than one governing body. The time has co~e for boxing to go out and get a single com~issiorter. governing 3: A-League B-League C-League single body so, the fan can ~eahze what It would be lIke 1. Hitler's Youth 1. Louie's Turbins 1. Gangsters with only one world champIOn. 2. Suns of Darkness 2. Gizzmos 2. Seamanon Let's hear it for Gerrie Coetzee.·He had the common 3. Honeymooners '3. Slaughterhouse 8 3. Pink Steel . sense' to realize that the only way for the charade to end 4. ~uffy Hunters 4. Trashmen 4. Whitemeat was by keeping his fight with Holmes. When the WBA threatened to strip Coetzee of his title he 'told them to stick their title up their...nose. Later the WBA took a . weaker stan~e on the issue and said they simply. wouldn't sanction the fight. Coetzee won the battle of words and hopefully th~ boxing world will come to its BUS TRIP TO SHEA! senses before it is counted out.

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