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Kenny Norton hit me so hard that it still hurts. Now there was a case of two fighters who did not like each other.

Larry Holmes

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Larry Holmes
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: November 3
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I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.
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Don King doesn't care about black or white. He just cares about green.
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I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.
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