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“TREC celebrates 25 years of FightNight at Museum Tower”
April 18, 2013
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“TREC celebrates 25 years of FightNight at Museum Tower”
April 18, 2013
D Real Estate Daily
“25th annual Fight Night to be held May 9”
April 19, 2013
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Dallasnews.com
May 10, 2013
http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/sugar-ray-leonard-and-roberto-duran-face-off-indallas.html/
Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Durán face
off in Dallas
By Cheryl Hall
cherylhall@dallasnews.com
12:46 pm on May 10, 2013 | Permalink
0 2 0 Legendary boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, right, looks on as Roberto Durán reacts as he's called to
speak to a group of students from J.P. Starks elementary on his boxing career and life, at the
boxing center in Oak Village Apartments in Dallas. Ben Torres/Special Contributor
The celebrity highlight of FightNight 25 on Thursday night was the appearance of former world
champion combatants Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Durán.
“It feels so weird,” said Leonard, before he hopped into the boxing ring of the annual fundraiser
for the Real Estate Council. “Here’s a guy who I disliked and all of a sudden now, we’re like
brothers. I love and respect him, and he feels the same way. We don’t see each other very often,
but when we do it’s very special.”
Real estate appraiser Steve Crosson, a former senior officer of the World Boxing Council and
referee of 30 world title matches, has longtime relationships with both former world champions,
considered two of the greatest boxers of all time.
Getting them to the event cost $25,000 plus travel expenses thanks to an “incredible deal” by
Durán, Crosson says.
That’s because Durán has a soft spot for helping underprivileged kids.
Thursday afternoon, the dynamic duo shared words of encouragement and a few boxing tips with
youth served by the Dallas nonprofit Behind Every Door.
“I wanted to give advice and share my experience with the kids of the streets to get them off the
streets and off of drugs,” Durán said through an interpreter. “I grew up on the streets fighting for
money.”
“Anything that involves kids, I love to be part of,” Leonard, who has attended numerous
FightNights, said of the afternoon visit. “We had the same message of working hard, staying on
the right road, make sure you get your education — the same things that we try to instill in our
own kids.”
Once in the ring at the Hilton Anatole Hotel Thursday night, Leonard and Durán, who squared
off in three title fights during in the 1980s, went faux nose-to-nose and then hugged to the roar of
the 1,200 in the audience. They signed an official World Boxing Council championship belt that
was auctioned off for $14,000.
For more about FightNight and its 25 years of fundraising check out my column in the Sunday
Business section.
Fightnews.com
Bektemirov-Griffin: Full Report
May 10, 2013
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The Dallas Morning News and dallasnews.com
“Boxing greats give formula for beating Floyd May weather Jr” – May 11, 2013
View online at http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/columnists/rick-gosselin/20130510-boxinggreats-give-formula-for-beating-floyd-mayweather-jr..ece
Boxing greats give formula for beating Floyd May
weather Jr.
Ethan Miller/Getty Images LAS VEGAS, NV - MAY 04: (L-R) Floyd May weather Jr. throws a left to the face of Robert Guerrero in
their WBC welterweight title bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on May 4, 2013 in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
Rick Gosselin
rgosselin@dallasnews.com
Published: 10 May 2013 10:07 PM
Updated: 10 May 2013 10:07 PM
Floyd May weather Jr. is the face of boxing.
May weather has won eight world titles in five weight classes and been called the greatest
pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
May weather is 44-0 with 26 knockouts. He’s never fought a boxer he couldn’t beat.
“I’d have knocked him out,” said Sugar Ray Leonard the other day.
I caught up with Leonard at the Home of Champions gym in south Dallas. He was in town to
promote the 25th annual FightNight, a community revitalization project sponsored by the Real
Estate Council.
The Home of Champions gym, run by former world welterweight champion Curtis Cokes, is
going to get a facelift from the council, so Leonard stopped by the gym for that announcement.
He brought along Roberto Duran, who also brought along an opinion about May weather.
“He wouldn’t last against me,” said Duran through an interpreter. “He’s not a bad guy, but he has
a big mouth. I know how he fights and everything he does. He’d have nothing to teach me.”
That’s what I’ve always liked about boxers. They speak their mind. Political correctness is never
part of the agenda. What they think, they say.
Leonard and Duran professed respect for May weather as a boxer. He maintained his perfect
record last weekend with a 12-round, unanimous decision over Robert Guerrero.
“He impressed me with his performance,” Leonard said. “Not because of who he fought —
Guerrero’s a good fighter, but not really in his [Mayweather’s] league. You saw that throughout
the rounds as May weather became more and more dominant.
“What impressed me about May weather was that he’s 36 and [had] been inactive for a more
than a year. Very few fighters, even myself, could come back and have the mental and
psychological capacity to stay focused like he did. He was brilliant. He was a sheer boxing
technician. His performance made me look up and say, ‘Yes, he can compete with any era.’”
But competing in any era and winning in any era are different challenges. Especially in the era of
Duran and Leonard, who fought three times, Leonard winning twice. They pushed each other to
greatness. And when they weren’t pushing each other, Marvin Hagler and Thomas Hearns were
doing some pushing.
“May weather wouldn’t reach [those heights] fighting against us,” Duran said. “Hearns would
have knocked him out. Hagler, Leonard and myself all would have knocked him out. Those guys
were monsters. Even [Iran] Barkley.”
Leonard won world titles in five weight classes. So did Hearns. Duran won titles in four weight
classes. Leonard was 27-0 before he lost to Duran. Hearns was 32-0 when he lost to Leonard.
Leonard, Duran, Hearns and Hagler are enshrined in the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
In 2002, The Ring magazine produced its list of the 20 greatest boxers of all time. It ranked
Duran fifth, Leonard ninth and Hagler 17th. And all those boxers fought each other. That era
produced some of the greatest bouts in history.
The lack of Hall of Fame competition may be what’s holding May weather back.
“There is no one else like him,” Duran said. “He’s one of the best. But right now there are no big
names like before. There is nobody.”
Actually, there is one. At least there was one. The boxing world hungered for a May weatherManny Pacquiao bout around the turn of the decade. They were the two best fighters of their
generation — May weather with a 40-0 record at the time and Pacquiao at 51-3-2.
There were some intense negotiations during 2010-11, but drug testing and then purse size
scuttled the talks and the fight never came to pass.
Pacquiao is 34 now and has fought 61 times. That’s a lot of rounds, a lot of punches. He lost his
two fights in 2012 and was knocked out in his last bout.
“That fight should already have happened,” Leonard said. “That fight would still draw, no
question. But it wouldn’t have the same magic as my fight with Tommy Hearns or Marvin
Hagler or Roberto Duran.”
Duran, standing a few feet away, also shook his head.
“You shouldn’t be afraid in boxing,” Duran said. “In our day, it was how much, when, where,
what time and at what weight?”
We may never see Mayweather-Pacquiao. The passage of time will prevent us from ever seeing
May weather-Leonard or May weather-Duran, either. That’s too bad — I’d have paid to see any
and all of those bouts.
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Hitzges.
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Sizing them up
Here’s a comparison of Floyd May weather with four signature boxers active in the 1980s:
Boxer
Record Years
Signature win
Floyd May weather 44-0-0 1996Def. De La Hoya, split dec.
Roberto Duran
103-16-0 1968-2001 Def. Leonard, dec.
Marvin Hagler
62-3-2 1973-1987 Def. Hearns, TKO 3
Thomas Hearns
61-5-1 1977-2006 Def. Duran, TKO 2
Sugar Ray Leonard 36-3-1 1977-1997 Def. Hagler, split dec.
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Al Dia Texas
“'Sugar' Ray Leonard y Roberto Durán apuestan por 'Canelo'”
May 10, 2013
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por/
'Sugar' Ray Leonard y Roberto Durán apuestan por
'Canelo'
Los icónicos boxeadores “Sugar” Ray Leonard (izq.) y Roberto “Manos de Piedra ” Durán (der.)
estuvieron el jueves en un gimnasio comunitario en el sur de Dallas. | BEN TORRES/ESPECIAL
PARA AL DÍA
SILVANA PAGLIUCA/AL DÍA | 5/10/2013, 1:35 p.m.
BEN TORRES/ESPECIAL PARA AL DÍA
Los icónicos boxeadores “Sugar” Ray Leonard (izq.) y Roberto “Manos de Piedra ” Durán (der.)
estuvieron el jueves en un gimnasio comunitario en el sur de Dallas.
Cualquiera le puede ganar a Floyd May weather Jr. coincidieron "Sugar" Ray Leonard y Roberto
"Manos de Piedra" Durán durante su visita a un gimnasio comunitario el jueves en Dallas.
"May weather no hubiese durado ante mí, él no tiene nada que enseñarme a mí", sentenció
Durán, uno de los mejores pesos ligeros de todos los tiempos.
"Yo lo hubiera noqueado, lo hubiera noqueado Tommy Hearns, lo hubiera noqueado Marvin
Hagler, "Sugar" Ray lo hubiera noqueado...todos los monstruos", consideró Durán.
May weather, de 36 años, es el campeón mundial invicto de peso welter con 44 victorias (26 por
nocaut).
Leonard sostuvo que la falta de "grandes nombres" en la actualidad ha permitido que se hable de
May weather.
"No hay una abundancia de personalidades que generen respeto, y ese es uno de los problemas
con el boxeo hoy", señaló Leonard, uno de los mejores boxeadores de las décadas de los 70 y 80.
Sin embargo, para Leonard la gran estrella del boxeo en estos momentos está en México.
"Me gusta ese chico pelirrojo", dijo Leonard, mientra trataba de recordar el nombre de Saúl
"Canelo" Álvarez, campeón mundial en las 154 libras.
"'Canelo' está empezando pero va bien... va bien por ahora", coincidió Durán, de 61 años.
"Álvarez me gusta, me gusta lo que veo de él, tiene tanto poder y muchas otras cosas, excepto la
experiencia", dijo Leonard.
Ambas leyendas del boxeo participaron de un evento de la organización sin fines de lucro
Behind Every Door, donde dieron consejos a jóvenes de escasos recursos en el gimnasio del
complejo de apartamentos Oak Village en el sur de Dallas.
"El boxeo no es relajo, si no pueden llegar a campeones hay que seguir estudiando", recomendó
Durán a cerca de unos 20 jóvenes.
"Es algo grande, una gran experiencia; no todos pueden conocerlo", dijo Martín Mares, de 20
años, de Guanajuato, tras conseguir un autógrafo de Durán en el gimnasio donde entrena a diario.
"Tengo todas sus peleas en video en mi casa".
May weather vs. Álvarez
Un posible enfrentamiento entre May weather Jr. y Álvarez fue estipulado para el 14 de
septiembre en Las Vegas.
Aunque todavía no se confirma el combate, Leonard señaló que Álvarez podría llevarse la
victoria si sabe cómo manejar los últimos asaltos.
"Necesita más experiencia porque entrando en los asaltos 10, 11 y 12, ahí lo único que cuenta es
todo lo que ha aprendido como boxeador", sostuvo Leonard.
Durán también apostó por el Canelo.
"¿Quién es May weather para no ganarle?", dijo.
La nueva generación
May weather se ha coronado en cinco divisiones diferentes y tiene ocho títulos mundiales, pero
para Durán "no es nadie".
Si May weather hubiese peleado en su misma generación "no hubiese llegado a ningún lado",
dijo Durán.
"Mira la última pelea que hizo, le fue malísimo y contra un tipo regular", señaló Durán en
referencia al enfrentamiento del 4 de mayo ante Robert Guerrero en Las Vegas, que extendió el
invicto de May weather.
May weather ha sido criticado constantemente por la elección de sus rivales. Un acuerdo para
enfrentar al filipino Manny Pacquiao aún no se ha concretado, por desacuerdos en cuanto a las
ganancias y los métodos de control antidoping.
"En el boxeo uno no debe tener miedo. A mí me decían: 'Roberto, ¿quieres pelear con tal?' y yo
les decía '¿por cuánto, a qué hora y dónde?'", relató Durán.
El boxeo actual carece de un ingrediente fundamental para Leonard.
"No tiene la misma magia que cuando yo peleaba contra Tommy Hearns, Marvin Hagler o
Durán", dijo.
"Los peleadores de mi era teníamos una cualidad especial de desafío, experiencia, corazón... y
todo eso es lo que nos hacía grandes", recordó Leonard
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“Raising fists and plenty of funds”
Cheryl Hall story online at http://www.dallasnews.com/business/columnists/cheryl-hall/20130511dallas-goes-vegas-to-score-knockout-for-charities.ece
Dallas goes Vegas to score knockout for
charities
6 1 0 AA
1 Cheryl Hall
cherylhall@dallasnews.com
Published: 11 May 2013 04:44 PM
Updated: 11 May 2013 08:55 PM
For six hours on Thursday night, Big D became Little Sin City.
The immense Hilton Anatole Trinity Ballroom looked like Las Vegas, with Cirque du Soleilstyle performers, gaming tables, a boxing ring, video screens and dining tables for 1,200
formally attired guests — about 75 percent of them men in tuxedos.
Hostesses in black wigs and provocative red gowns handed out champagne and poker chips at
the door, giving it the feel of a James Bond film.
The cause was FightNight 25, dreamed up in the depths of the late ’80s real estate debacle by
four guys who figured that since nobody was doing any business, they might as well raise Cain
and some money for charity.
FightNight is an eclectic combination of drinking, eating, celebrity-gazing, smoking (outside),
casino-style gambling and World Boxing Council-sanctioned boxing matches. It draws real
estate players from around the country, many of whom consider it the highlight of the year.
Since its raucous beginning at the Fairmont Hotel on April 13, 1989, the event has grown into a
fundraising phenomenon for The Real Estate Council and its foundation, bringing in millions for
inner-city revitalization projects and economic development initiatives. The foundation provided
the original seed funding for Klyde Warren Park.
“The first FightNight felt like the phoenix rising from the ashes,” said David Shuttee, executive
chairman of Republic Title of Texas Inc. and an original sponsor, at a pre-party a few weeks ago.
“You saw people you hadn’t seen in five years because real estate had fallen apart.”
Konrad Kaltenbach, vice president of national sales for Chicago Title Insurance Co., this year’s
largest sponsor, said he felt like a survivor at the first event and again this year.
“I’ve ridden it out. I’ve been at the same company 25 years,” he said. “This is business. People
are here to reconnect and talk about deals.”
Neal Sleeper, president of Cityplace, chaired the second FightNight. “We’re in the room with
people who compete with each other for every big office lease,” he said. “And yet, through The
Real Estate Council, everybody gets together and has a great time. We lay down the gloves for a
night.”
Celebrities have always been part of the festivities.
George W. Bush attended the 1991 party with Muhammad Ali. Smokin’ Joe Frazier, George
Foreman and Evander Holyfield — not your usual Dallas fete set — have made paid
appearances.
Bringing in dough
Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Durán squared off in three title fights during the 1980s. On
Thursday night, they mugged like warriors in the ring and hugged like brothers. Then they
signed an official World Boxing Council championship belt that was auctioned off for $14,000.
Linda McMahon, chief executive of The Real Estate Council, had estimated that the belt would
bring in $8,000. “Looks like I may have to up my revenue estimates,” she said.
Gross revenue, including $200,000 in in-kind donations, is expected to top $1.4 million, with a
net of $700,000. “That’s huge,” McMahon said. “Business is obviously a lot better, and people
are feeling good about it. Our young leadership class sold more than $109,000 in raffle tickets.”
Individual event tickets started at $700.
FightNight actually started to help the struggling Dallas chapter of the National Association of
Industrial and Office Parks, which needed money to pay staff and rent and keep the lights turned
on.
Four buddies — Bob Kaminski, Jesse Pruitt, Jeffrey Swope and the late Steven Means — came
up with the idea of holding a black-tie boxing match in a fancy hotel.
Real estate appraiser Steve Crosson, chairman and CEO of Crosson Dannis Inc., and Dallas
marketing executive Andrea Alcorn were brought in to put on the fights and make party
arrangements at the Fairmont, which could hold 880 people at a seated dinner with a boxing ring
in the middle.
“We thought, ‘The economy is so bad, real estate is so terrible, if we can get 200, 300 people,
it’ll be a grand slam,’” said Crosson, a former senior officer of the World Boxing Council and
referee of 30 world title matches. “We sold it out and had a waiting list of 175 people. We ended
up netting $175,000 after expenses.”
‘Completely Texan’
From the outset, this was an event for guys. The first invitation stipulated “Black tie (sans
spouse).”
About the only women attending were a couple dozen convention models who were hired to
serve as hostesses and three seductively attired women from the Million Dollar Saloon to hold
the round cards during the matches.
“It was the height of male chauvinism,” says Mickey Ashmore, chief executive of United
Commercial Realty. “It was completely Texan. Men showed up in their tuxedos and smoked
cigars.”
By everyone’s account, the air was so thick with smoke you could have cut it with a knife.
One of the most memorable moments was unplanned.
Organizers tried to save money on the lights, but when the switch was thrown, a power surge
created a 40-minute blackout.
The concept was so instantly popular that Alcorn and Crosson formed Fight Night Inc. in 1991 to
start similar fundraisers in Houston, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
“It’s amazing how much money this concept has generated for charities across the country,”
Alcorn says. “Millions and millions, maybe even a billion, if we could somehow add it up.
“And it all started with these guys from Dallas.”
FightNight’s first boxers were a ragtag lot.
“There was one guy, John ‘Death Wish’ Garner, who was colorful but couldn’t fight a lick,”
Crosson said. “He got into the ring, thumped his chest and the crowd loved him.”
Crosson drew on his World Boxing Council friendships to bring in more up-and-comers.
Ricardo “El Finito” López Nava of Mexico fought at FightNight 2 and became the WBC
minimum weight champion six months later.
Dallas boxer Quincy Taylor fought FightNight 5, and less than a year later scored a knock-out
victory for the WBC middleweight championship.
The last bout of FightNight 21 was a catastrophe. Benjamin Flores, a 24-year-old boxer from
Houston, took a series of punches to the head before the fight was stopped in the eighth round.
Five days later, Flores died at Parkland Memorial Hospital from blunt-force injuries.
“Terrible. It knocked us all for a loop,” Crosson said. “It was a horrible accident.”
Matches’ cost
This year’s four boxing matches cost about $60,000, which was higher than usual, said Crosson,
because there were two main events, including Medzhid Bektemirov’s win of the WBC/USNBC
light heavyweight title.
Developer Craig Hall, who attended the first FightNight, has no stomach for pugilism but says he
appreciates the work The Real Estate Council does. He lets others at his company use the
sponsorship tickets. “If they required principals of sponsors to be present, I might draw the line,”
Hall said.
The Real Estate Council is made up of 1,400 real estate professionals and 500 companies that
represent almost all of the top commercial real estate businesses in North Texas.
Women are a growing presence in the commercial real estate industry, but it’s still a maledominated field.
FightNight 25 chairwoman Diane Butler, CEO of Dallas-based Butler Burgher Group, is the
fourth woman to chair the event.
Public relations executive Carol Reed was the first chairwoman in 2000 and says she had one
goal: to make money and not change things dramatically so that “the guys” would let another
woman chair the event. Real estate developer Lucy Billingsley did that in 2005, and in 2011,
Elizabeth Malone co-chaired it with her father, Will Mundinger II, and brother, Will III.
Susan Singer, a broker with Bradford Commercial Real Estate, has been coming to FightNight
for 22 years.
“I showed up to my first one in my cute little cocktail dress and walked up to my assigned table,
and all the guys are, ‘Hey honey. Get us some beer, some scotch and some cigars.’ I was like,
‘Well, actually, that’s my chair.’ I sat down with them and we smoked cigars, drank scotch and
had a good time.”
She hasn’t missed one since. “There are people who come from around the country who I only
see once a year.”
One goal of FightNight is to help younger professionals connect with key players in the industry.
Anna Plemons and Tiffany Rippa, both 26, volunteered to take bets on the fights as a way to get
in for free.
“It’s a great way to network, meet people and have a good time and volunteer for charity,” says
Plemons, who works for a civil engineering company. “What’s not to like?”
CBS 11/TXA 21 website
Mark Elfenbein slide show featuring 7 slides that were posted on CBS 11/TXA 21’s website. View
online at http://dfw.cbslocal.com/photo-galleries/2013/05/10/elf-at-25th-annual-fightnight/ .
D Real Estate Daily
May 16, 2013
FightNight 2013: Photos, Recap
View online at http://realestate.dmagazine.com/2013/05/fight-night-2013-photos-and-recap/
RealPoints
Daily Reports on Commercial Real Estate
FightNight2013:Photos,Recap
By Christine Perez
May 16th, 2013 11:11am
If you work in commercial real estate in North Texas, chances are good that you were at the
Hilton Anatole last week for The Real Estate Council’s annual FightNight. The 25th anniversary
edition of the group’s signature fundraiser did not disappoint, attracting a crowd of about 1,300
industry execs—along with boxing greats Sugar Ray Leonard and Roberto Duran.
Event chair Diane Butler, CEO of Dallas-based Butler Burgher Group said FightNight is
symbolic of the “never-give-up attitude that remains steadfast in the North Texas real estate
community, making our region one of the hottest and fastest-growing in the country.”
Over the years, FightNight has raised more than $21 million for community revitalization
projects, including the original seed funding for Klyde Warren Park.
This year’s affair included silver boxer “statues,” Cirque de Soleil-style acrobats swinging from
high-flying red drapes, and a bevy of models sporting red gowns and brunette wigs—a few of
which ended up on party-goer heads by the end of the night (you know who you are!).
Here’s more on the history of FightNight, and below are photos from the event, all taken by
photographer James Edward.
The center of attraction.
Just a few of the former FightNight chairmen who attended.
TREC president Linda McMahon, Jeff Swope, 2013 FightNight chair Diane Butler
Action in the ring.
Sugar Ray Leonard, FightNight boxing chair Steve Crosson
One of the acrobatic dancers.
Mary Beth Shapiro, Bo Feagin, Vicky Summerall
Glenn Callison, Holt Lunsford
Silver boxer “sculpture.”
Bob Kaminski, Elizabeth Malone, Will Mundinger
Bill Jackson, Roberto Duran, Michael Krywucki
One of the many brunette-wigged models greeting guests.
Tom Garner, Jon Napper
Diane Butler, Carol Reed
DALLAS BUSINESS JOURNAL
May 17, 2013
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KTVT-DAL (CBS)5/9/2013 6:21:19 PM
Dallas, TX
CBS 11 News at 6 PM
Local Viewership: 113,141
Local Publicity Value: $8,057.36
80. more rain chances for the middle of next week. >> thank you larry. >> now it's time
for sports with babe laufenberg. >> reporter: hello, karen. fight night at the hotel here.
the word "great" gets tossed around a little too liberally nowadays, but tonight we do
have the great one, sugar ray leonard the great boxer is going to join me next. keep
with us.
KXAS-DAL (NBC)5/9/2013 6:26:33 PM
Dallas, TX
NBC 5 News at 6
Local Viewership: 170,712
Local Publicity Value: $12,850.48
i think the area can absolutely support it. >> love that. >>> check this out. two boxing
rivals come together. sugar ray leonard and roberto duran. they have helped fund inner
city revitalization. great to see those guys in sports. that's sports. >>> though he never
returned >> thanks, newy. home from deployment, a hometown hero is leaving his
mark on frisco. >> this week frisco city council voted unanimously to rename the
entrance road in honor of army corporal peter corsey.
KTXA (CBS)5/9/2013 6:30:41 PM
Dallas, TX
The Fan Sports Show
Local Viewership: 45,895
Local Publicity Value: $2,858.24
>> oh, my goodness gracious. >> he may get thrown out of here. hernandez messed
up the other night. >> couldn't find bananas. >> and then i had to deduct points. >>> it
is the silver anniversary of fight night started by the real estate council 25 years ago. it
is tonight at the annatol hotel just right outside of downtown dallas. we are coming at
you live for the next 60 minutes here on the fan sports show from fight
KTXA (CBS)5/9/2013 6:49:03 PM
Dallas, TX
The Fan Sports Show
Local Viewership: 45,895
Local Publicity Value: $2,858.24
that. >> that does it and gina miller returns. we'll join her at fight night where she has
the story of the dallas kids that had a great opportunity to meet legendary boxers and
learn a few tips from them.
KTXA (CBS)5/9/2013 7:07:16 PM
Dallas, TX
The Fan Sports Show
Local Viewership: 45,895
Local Publicity Value: $3,535.84
>> if dirk's not the draw, what is the draw? >> you're raising an excellent question.
have a great night tonight. i'm so excited to be here. this is a great night. you can find
out all sorts of information about the fight night anywhere, just google it. good luck
tonight. let's go back to the studios where bill jones, i guarantee you're not having as
much fun as i am. >> looks like you're having a lot of fun. we'll rejoin gina here in just a
moment. rookies have arrived at valley ranch for the start of their big cowboys or
yentation weekend. we'll get our first chance to see them on the practice field
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and this one mad girlfriend. >> yeah. big night for boxing in this town. not a big boxing
fan but maybe i will become one. george foreman and sugar ray was in dallas. what
were they doing? we will tell you. and what are the expectations for tony romo? that's
next.
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as coaches. we want our quarterback to be involved. he will continue to do that going
forward. >> there was no more charismatic fighter than sugar ray leonard. tonight he
was in town for fight night hosted by the real estate council. the event raised over $21
million for charity in it 25 years. now leonard will be remembered for the no-moss fight
with the boxing lend in town, roberto. the man known for having hands of stone. and he
had seen quite enough from sugar ray and throwing in the towel of round 8 in 1980.
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going forward. >> >> no more charismatic fighter than sugar ray leonard. last night, he
was in for an event that has raised over $2 million for charity. he will be most
remembered for the no mas fight with robertodura energy he had seen quite enough of
him throwing in the towel in round eight of their match in 190. >> >> mu homed ali
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Beyondthegame.com
Interview: Boxing Legend Sugar Ray
May 13, 2013
http://www.beyondthegame.com/boxing-legend-sugar-ray-leonard/
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WBAP-AM/FM conducted interview with Sugar Ray
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105.3 The Fan conducted interviews with Sugar Ray Leonard
(segments from this interview may also have aired on KRLD-AM)