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Just read on SI.com that Vitali Klitschko dominated Shannon Briggs to retain his WBC heavyweight title.

I was shocked by this news, in that:

A. I didn’t realize Vitali Klitschko is still heavyweight champ.

B. I couldn’t believe Briggs still commands title fights.

C. I always thought Briggs’ last name was ‘Biggs.’

In other words, wow. Not all that long ago, I was a huge boxing fan. Huge. Came up watching Marvelous and Sugar and Tommy and Duran; can vivdily recall the excitement preceeding Cooney-Holmes and Bramble-Mancini and, later on, the two Holyfield-Tyson fights. I covered a bunch of fights for SI in the early 2000s, and always dug the experience.

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