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Wednesday, February 22, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
Thrashing from personal life won't halt Tyson, trainer says
The Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — Johnny Tocco has watched Mike Tyson and Frank Bruno train at his gym, and he thinks he knows what will happen Satur-
happen Saturday night.
"I don't think Bruno will be there after five rounds, roceo. We did yesterday of the Briton's challenge or
boxing's undisputed heavyweight championship.
championship
"He is a stand-up fighter."
Tocco said. "He stands straight up in the air. Thomas, Berbick and Holmes, all those tall guys, Tyson just chops them down."
Tyson knocked out Larry Holmes, who was the premier heavyweight in the world for seven years, in the fourth round.
years, in the tour in 1985,
"Holmes is a much smarter
fighter than Bruno." Tocco said.
Tyson knocked out Trevor Berbick in the second round and Pinkolin Thomas in the sixth.
"This Bruno, he surprises me because he's so relaxed and so polite," Toco said. Bruno said he had been seeing a hypothetist.
hakratho. For Tyson, Tcoo said, "I've seen him train for five fights now. I've never seen him let up on any sparring partners.
sparring." He's an animal. He's got seven sparing partners now and he needs them because he keeps hurting them. He gets them hurt and he wants to finish them off whether it's gym work or a fight."
Tyson fired trainer Kevin Rooney because of Rooney's public comments about Tyson's relationship with actress Robin Givens, from whom Tyson was divorced Feb. 14.
FIG. 14.
Jay Bright, a longtime friend,
and Aaron Snowell are training
Tyson for this fight.
"They both are yelling instructions to him, which isn't too good," Tocco said. "But I don't think he listens to anyone in there, anyway."
"All he needs is someone to tie the gloves on, and anything in front of him he goes after.
Bruno has said he thought the turmoil in Tyson's life would hurt the champion. Besides the recent divorce, Tyson is trying to break his contract with manager Bill Cayton.
Olympian Griffith-Joyner recalls Jesse Owens as she receives award
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — When Florence Griffith-Joyner was 15 years old, she received one of her biggest disappointments from Jesse Owens.
politicians from New York and Yesterday, Griffith-Joyner again was linked to the great spinner and long jumper of the 1930s — and it was one of her most gratifying experiences.
ply the game.
Her first association with Owens was when Griffith-Joyner was 14 years old and won a race at the Jesse Owens Arco Games to qualify for a trip to San Francisco.
The following year, she won the race again, and thought she had qualified for a trip to Texas. But after being congratulated by Owens and
Griffith-Joyner, who sprinted to three Olympic gold medals and one silver medal in 1988, and broke world records in the women's 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, received the 1989 Jesse Owens International Trophy Award.
telling him how happy she was about going to Texas, he jolted her by saying, "You won last year and (the) second-place (finisher) is going."
"He made a young girl cry," Griffith-Joyner said.
No, my father I had.
"Later, I learned who Jesse Owens was and I could have kicked myself for what I had done," she said.
Griffith-Joyner said she not only admired Owens for his athletic performances, but for the kind of person he stood for.
Ruth Wouts, Jesse Owens' wife, said there was a striking resemblance between the running styles of her late husband and Griffith Joyner.
"She runs smooth, he ran smooth . . as smooth as a black panther," Owens said.
Owens said. Griffith-Joyner ran smoothly and brilliantly last year.
She shattered the world records by astonishing margins, lowering the 100 mark from 10.76 seconds to 10.49 and the 200 record from 27.1 to 27.13
She won Olympic golds in those events, plus the 400-meter relay, along with a silver in the 1,600 relay.
atong with a silver in the 1,600 relay. In missing a fourth gold, she fell just short of Owens' accomplishment of winning four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
The Jesse Owens International Trophy Award is presented annually to the athlete who best personifies excellence in athletic performance and promotes sincere cooperation and understanding among people throughout the world.
"Off the field, Griffith-Joyner has the charm and dignity of a Jesse Owens," said Herb Douglas, president of the International Amateur Athletic Association and founder of the award. "On the field, her accomplishments are simply incredible.
"No athlete had more charisma than Jesse Owens. She reminds me so much of Jesse on and off the field."
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