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Undefeated No. 1 ranked Heavyweight contender Michael Moorer takes on Mike Evans on HBO Boxing
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00:01Introducing Michael Moore!
00:04This is my time. I've worked too hard and come too far not to get a shot at the heavyweight title.
00:14Down goes Alex Stewart!
00:17Oh!
00:21Undebated Michael Moore!
00:24No one wants it as bad as I do.
00:27Morrison, he had it.
00:28We know what happened to him.
00:31Michael bent on the verge of a big moment.
00:34And he's got it. That's it.
00:36And there goes Tommy Morrison's $8 million payday.
00:40Big Daddy Bo owned it.
00:42He blew it.
00:44Holyfield gunning for a stop in here.
00:47It would shock the world.
00:49And once again, heavyweight, champion of the world, Evander, Holyfield!
00:58Now, Holyfield has it.
01:01I won it.
01:02Only one man stands between me and the shot at the heavyweight title, and that's Mike Evans.
01:07He won't ruin my dream.
01:09And we bring you back live to ringside in the Reno Sparks Convention Center to get ready for the second main event of the evening.
01:19Ten rounds.
01:20A heavyweight battle between Michael Moore, ranked by two governing bodies as the number one contender in the division,
01:26and journeyman heavyweight Mike Evans, a tough customer who has not been knocked out in ten years.
01:33Larry Merchant makes it back down from the ring after the thrill of that featherweight championship fight.
01:38Larry, a few years ago, we looked at young Michael Moore when he first made his way into the heavyweight division as a light heavyweight champion,
01:45as a guy who was going to track along with Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe toward a heavyweight title.
01:50They got their championships.
01:51What's been happening to him?
01:53Well, he is still, unlike them, a potential champion.
01:58He's still unbeaten.
01:59He's still a terrific prospect.
02:02He is only a fight away from fighting for the heavyweight championship because he is the mandatory challenger.
02:08But the question about Michael Moore is this.
02:11Will he be the kind of fighter who gets a title shot or the kind of fighter who can win that title shot?
02:18Or to put it in another way, is he just a work in progress or is what we've seen what we're going to continue to get?
02:27What we've seen is a smallish heavyweight by the standards of Bowe and Lewis.
02:32What we've seen is a heavyweight, however, with a big punch by any standard.
02:37We also have seen a heavyweight who can be hit, who can be hurt, and who can be knocked down,
02:43but then who gets up, fights back, and prevails.
02:46His main problem seems to be a kind of passive aggressiveness in which he waits for the other guy to do something,
02:53and then he responds.
02:55He's got another new trainer, Teddy Atlas, a disciple of the late Customato, trying to correct that.
03:02And tonight will be an opportunity to see if he can do that, Jim.
03:05Indeed, his third different training situation, first Emmanuel Stewart, then Duva and Benton,
03:11and now he moves to Teddy Atlas, who is the inheritor of the Customato tradition.
03:16Larry talked about how things have moved slowly for Michael Moore, maybe his punching power,
03:20which Larry alluded to as one reason, George.
03:22Another reason, I think, is because he's a southpaw.
03:25Nobody seems to want to fight a southpaw heavyweight.
03:28Yeah, I remember Dick Sadler, my original manager, promising me,
03:30I will never allow you to fight a southpaw.
03:33And when you see a top-name fighter fight a southpaw, it's broken promises all the way.
03:37I wouldn't fight him if I was any champion of the world.
03:40You just allow these guys to fade away.
03:42And Michael Moore is making a stand right now, but he shouldn't take this fight for granted.
03:46He's in against a tough opponent.
03:48Indeed.
03:48Let's take a look at Mike Evans now as he makes his way toward the ring.
03:5137 professional fights, 29 wins, 7 losses, 1 draw.
03:57He has not been knocked out in 10 years.
04:00Evans, in junior college and college, developed an international reputation as a wrestler.
04:07Indeed, he wrestled overseas for American international teams
04:11in the company of some big names like Bruce Baumgartner and Jeff Blatnick.
04:15They were his buddies and his contemporaries in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.
04:20But he got into boxing while he was on a wrestling scholarship at LSU.
04:24And when he left Baton Rouge, he made the decision to try boxing first,
04:29maybe with a wrestling career still to come down the road.
04:34And you see it, 29-7 and 1.
04:37Larry mentions that he's been in 10-round battles, 7 of them.
04:41But his record in those fights is only 2-5.
04:44The knock is that when he gets ready to fight, only to finish.
04:48We'll see if he does that tonight.
04:49Meanwhile, here comes the number-one-ranked contender on the lists of the WBA and the IVF.
04:55In front of him, the young man with dark hair is Teddy Atlas, the new trainer.
04:59They've been together only 8 weeks.
05:01Some suggest that Moorer is a hardhead who is going to be difficult for any trainer to have an effect on.
05:08He himself is a relatively monosyllabic, tight-lipped, strong-willed person
05:14who believes that he knows best what is good for Michael Moorer.
05:18One thing that should be stated here is that Manuel Stewart and Duver and Benton both try to get him to come off the ropes
05:29and use that big, powerful jab in the middle of the ring, and both fail to do it consistently.
05:36Teddy Atlas is trying to go to the root of what keeps him on the ropes.
05:40He feels that he hadn't trained seriously enough in the past, perhaps because he was giving himself an excuse not to look his best.
05:51We'll see, because Atlas is a disciplinarian who may have this man in the best shape he's ever been in.
06:02And here is a look at the record, spotless so far.
06:0533 wins, no losses, no draws, 30 KOs, 11-0 with 8 knockouts since he moved up from light heavyweight to heavyweight.
06:15At one point, he had a string of 20 consecutive knockouts, and maybe that tendency not to take charge,
06:21to stay against the ropes, is born of an insecurity brought about by the fact that he has too often been an open target.
06:28Against punchers like Alex Stewart and Burt Cooper, Michael Moorer has taken a lot of power shots
06:34and has been in trouble on both occasions.
06:37Here's the fight against Stewart in Norfolk, Virginia.
06:39Stewart, you can see, stunned him with hard right hands and had him immobile against the ropes.
06:44A couple of times during the fight, Moorer was able to fight his way out of it with his own extraordinary punching power.
06:50Burt Cooper, like Stewart, landed more than two fits, more than 40% of his power shots,
06:56and as you can see, put Moorer on the canvas.
06:59Again, Moorer bailed himself out with superior punching power.
07:04Teddy Atlas speaking into the ear of Michael Moorer.
07:08Atlas is an extraordinary communicator.
07:11Can he communicate with this guy?
07:12That's a big question.
07:13Tail of the tape.
07:15Tail of the tape.
07:16Moorer is eight years younger and 28 pounds lighter.
07:20Evans has a seven-inch reach advantage, but will he be aggressive enough to make use of it?
07:24Hard to say.
07:26Punched at numbers, Larry.
07:29I'm not sure what these numbers mean, except they show the efficiency of Michael Moorer.
07:34I'm not sure that Michael Moorer wouldn't be better off throwing more punches and being a little less efficient,
07:41and that is particularly the case with his jabs, throwing only 14 jabs per round generally, landing a very high percentage.
07:50Maybe he'll throw more now.
07:52And rules of the bout from Harold Letterman, who's been busy already tonight.
07:56Michael Moorer and Mike Evans will box tonight using the rules of the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
08:01Ten rounds.
08:02There is no standing eight count.
08:04The three knockdown rule is in effect.
08:07You can be saved by the bell in the last round only.
08:09Only the referee can stop the fight, and in case a cut is caused by an accidental headbutt,
08:14and that cut causes the fight to be stopped, we go to the scorecards.
08:17If the three rounds have been completed, before that, it's a technical draw.
08:21Jim.
08:22Let's go to the ring announcer, Michael Buffer, for the official particulars.
08:25And now, ladies and gentlemen, main events, along with the Reno Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority,
08:30in association with the undisputed, undefeated, Pena of Fears, Budweiser, proud to be your bud,
08:37present the featured bout of the evening.
08:40This bout is sanctioned by the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
08:44All the officials of Mayside shall remain the same, except for the following.
08:48The three judges scoring the contest will be Burt Clements, Keith McDonald, and Herb Santos.
08:55And when the bell rings, the man in charge of the action, referee Victor Draculich.
09:01And now, ladies and gentlemen from the biggest little city in the world, Reno, Nevada,
09:07let's get ready to rumble!
09:14Ten rounds of boxing in the heavyweight division.
09:18Introducing first, fighting out of the blue corner, wearing the white trunks with red trim,
09:24weighing in at 244 pounds.
09:26His professional record, 29 victories with 20 KOs, against seven defeats with one draw.
09:33He's ranked number 11 in the world by the International Boxing Federation.
09:37Ladies and gentlemen, from the windy city, Chicago, Illinois,
09:40let's do it for mighty Mike Evans!
09:49And his opponent across the ring, fighting out of the red corner,
09:53wearing the black trunks, weighing in at 216 pounds,
09:57undefeated with a record of 33-0, 30 by KO.
10:01He comes to us tonight from the Motor City, Detroit, Michigan.
10:05Ladies and gentlemen, presenting a two-time undefeated world champion,
10:11currently ranked number one in the world in the heavyweight division,
10:15Michael Moore!
10:18All right, gentlemen, you've received your instructions and addresses.
10:33Are there any questions?
10:35Any questions for a few seconds?
10:36All right, remember, obey my command, protect yourselves at all times.
10:39Touch close now, let's get to it.
10:40Of course, we have a question, and that question is,
10:44can Michael Moore make it happen instead of waiting for it to happen?
10:52Incidentally, if Mike Evans looks familiar to you,
10:54and you're a relatively casual fan of the sport,
10:57it may be because he was the star of a Budweiser light beer commercial
11:00featuring a boxer which ran for two whole years on network television in the middle 80s.
11:05If you remember that commercial in which you saw a fighter training, winning,
11:08and then celebrating with his pals, that was Mike Evans.
11:12He earned more money from that than he's ever earned in the ring.
11:23Round one begins with Evans cautiously protecting himself along the ropes,
11:29and Moore cautiously stalking him.
11:34Moore's got a big man in front of him with a big body.
11:36Start hitting that big body.
11:38The only thing he can't move out of the way.
11:42Start headhunting too quick, that big body starts falling off of you,
11:46and you get tired.
11:47Like a football player bumping you.
11:51George, my own personal opinion,
11:54and I'm sure I'm in the minority,
11:55but I think Michael Moore, aside from yourself, of course,
12:00throws the heaviest punch in the division.
12:02I think he's a harder puncher than Riddick Bowe or Lennox Lewis.
12:05There's no doubt he's a hard puncher,
12:07but a lot of the things he's getting away with he would not have made it this far
12:11if he had been a regular orthodox left-hander in front of you with a right front.
12:16You mean a conventional fighter?
12:17No.
12:17He would have not have made it this far at all.
12:20He's surviving, and a lot of his power is affected because he's on your wrong side.
12:24And you just don't see many southpaws in the heavyweight division.
12:29Some lowerweight classes, you'll find five or six southpaws in the top 20.
12:33Never is that the case in the heavyweight class.
12:36With the Muhammad Ali, someone could jab him and move in that unorthodox style.
12:40Orthodox style, move, keep him off balance.
12:44But because you're a southpaw, you don't know where the state in front of this guy is.
12:49Moore has thrown fewer than ten punches in this round.
12:53We said he was efficient.
12:55Maybe he's just not busy enough.
12:59Evans is starting to land jabs now, which is the best thing he could do.
13:02Come on, watch out.
13:03Come on, break him, break him.
13:04Come on.
13:05When they dropped their hands, Evans' hands almost reached his knees.
13:08Why isn't he using a jab?
13:10I don't know.
13:10The three guys who've gone the distance with Mike Moorer, Mike White, Everett Bigfoot Martin,
13:23James Bonecrusher-Smith, all of them crafty veterans who've been around like Mike Evans.
13:29And if you get to be a crafty veteran with a punch, that means you can knock him out.
13:34Moore is starting to land a good right hook to the body.
13:45This will help him later on.
13:48And Moorer finally starting to throw punches, but not yet in bunches.
13:54You've got to tell a young fighter, okay, don't worry about finishing it up.
13:58Just get those body punches in.
13:59They'll pay off a little later.
14:00Folks love heavyweights.
14:11Right now I love featherweights.
14:14Now it's all real.
14:15There's no more to make-believe.
14:17Just another session.
14:19Put your legs out.
14:20Take a nice deep breath through your nose.
14:22Let it out slow.
14:23We're in control.
14:24I want that jab to get working.
14:26He's bullshitting you, Mike.
14:27He's an old bet.
14:28He likes to go nice and slow and then pop-shot you with the right hand.
14:31Don't give him that opportunity.
14:32We're not going to give that to him, are we?
14:34Now snap that jab out.
14:36Don't let him con you.
14:38And watch your range.
14:39As you start to get in that range, snap that jab out.
14:41Don't let him touch you with his jab, but then he can touch you with the right hand.
14:45And get busy with that left hook and that overhand right, all right?
14:49Let's just go through your power.
14:50The moment you find yourself trapped in the corner, throw that right hand, and that's what it comes into you.
14:59Let's go.
14:59Nice and alert.
15:00Let's get things working.
15:01Let's go.
15:01Let's go.
15:02Let's go.
15:02Let's go.
15:03Let's go.
15:03Let's go.
15:04Let's go.
15:04Let's go.
15:05Let's go.
15:05Let's go.
15:06Let's go.
15:07Let's go.
15:08Let's go.
15:09Let's go.
15:11Let's go.
15:12Let's go.
15:13Round two.
15:13If you looked at the punch stat numbers between rounds, you saw that a total of 15 blows were landed
15:18in round one.
15:19Vargas and Kelly landed 15 in some of their exchanges.
15:30The thing Moore's manager's corners told him is that don't let this guy fool you and worry
15:35you out.
15:36It's like some people can get a catfish or something and rub his stomach and they'll let
15:40you pick him up.
15:41Now, Mike Evans is suing Michael Moore in that same fashion.
15:45Don't hit him too hard.
15:46Just keep him thinking he's the aggressor.
15:49You can last a long time that goes.
15:51So, if you rub a catfish's stomach, he'll let you pick him up?
15:55I've heard about these steelheads and things.
15:57They'll let you put their hands under the belly and you can just pick him up.
16:00Great.
16:00But if you go and make a quick step, they'll run away.
16:04So, with Michael Moore, just kind of jab him, throw right hands.
16:07Don't pick up the pace.
16:08Just let it happen.
16:10Before you know it, ten rounds have gone by.
16:14Before you know it, six rounds have gone by and you're asleep.
16:17That's true.
16:24Evans landed a right hand to the body.
16:28Pawing with the jab.
16:30Go to a fighter like Michael Moore's training camp and see the sparring partners.
16:48Which ones last the longer?
16:50It's the ones who don't get his temper.
16:53Don't make it mad.
16:54So, when you get in the fight, don't make it mad.
16:56Just win.
16:57That's right.
16:57His pattern has been that he's a guy when you hit him and hurt him, he comes back with heavier stuff.
17:03You just jab and don't make it mad.
17:05Just be a sparring partner and I'll coin him.
17:10Well, one frustrating tendency for Moore has been to lay against the ropes and be passive.
17:16But Evans has the franchise on the ropes here.
17:19He's not going to give Moore a chance to do that.
17:22Emmanuel Stewart had him a more finished fighter.
17:24There's no doubt about it.
17:25Let's go.
17:27Let's go.
17:27Let's go.
17:27Let's go.
17:28Let's go.
17:28Let's go.
17:29Daddy Atlas' most noteworthy training experience, of course, was with Mike Tyson when he was the right-hand man to Customato during Tyson's developmental stage.
17:39Emmanuel Stewart have always been the best one-two combination trainer in boxing business.
17:45Whatever hand, left-hand first, right-hand first, finish it with a knock-down punch.
17:49Oh, hard right hand from Evans over the top.
17:59And the left.
18:01A rare piece of aggression from the man who must be called the opponent here tonight.
18:07First of all, when he's moving around on you like that, I want to cut the ring down.
18:15I don't want to follow him.
18:16All right?
18:17He's mostly sliding to your right.
18:18So anticipate that slide over and meet him.
18:20Don't allow him to con you.
18:23You hear me?
18:25He's starting to take form of the same guys we work with in the gym.
18:28No difference.
18:29Don't make him better than he is.
18:31Don't allow him to get confidence.
18:32Get him for swallowing.
18:33All right?
18:34Relax.
18:35You have a dead round there, take a swallow now.
18:37And you're letting him get confidence.
18:39I want to snap that jab.
18:40Don't reach him with the left hand.
18:42Snap that jab and set things up.
18:43Even if you're hooked off it.
18:44Set things up off it.
18:45And when you make a move, look to punch.
18:48You're making too many moves.
18:49And you're hard right hand.
18:50Because you ain't missing this boy.
18:52All right?
18:53Just take your time and relax.
18:55Get in your body.
18:57Come with the hard hooks and the right hand.
18:58Come on.
18:58Take it down.
18:59Go.
18:59Go.
19:01Evans' trainer is Terry Claibon.
19:03And George, not for nothing did you spend those 28 years in boxing.
19:07You say that Evans behaves like a sparring partner.
19:09And then Teddy Atlas says the same thing.
19:11But Evans' trainer corner is trying to tell him now not to be our sparring partner.
19:18That could cause trouble.
19:22Michael Moore, best thing that ever was for him, he was a developed middleweight and light heavyweight.
19:27His speed was always his thing.
19:31He's flopping like some big heavyweight boxer.
19:35The only thing that could happen, you'd get hurt.
19:38He should go back to fighting the way he did when he was a light heavyweight and the middleweight.
19:41That's right.
19:42Duck.
19:43Throw three punches.
19:44Duck again.
19:44Throw four punches.
19:45Duck again.
19:47He's waiting on one, two, three hard shots.
19:52And if he doesn't get the chance, all that punching power doesn't mean a thing.
19:56And the veterans don't allow you to just do all that hard shots one punch at a time.
20:00He lays on the rope and moves his back out of the position.
20:05Old Muhammad Ali stuff.
20:09You see my body now lay up against the rope and now you don't have anything.
20:12And when Moore starts wrestling with a 244 natural walk around 260 pounder, things can get pretty bad.
20:31Moore is starting to use a jab now, which is the best thing he can do.
20:34Maybe the jab will set something up for him.
20:41He seems in a quandary as to how to attack Evans.
20:45You don't attack.
20:46You just keep using your jab.
20:47Keep your point system up.
20:49Things start to happen by themselves.
20:51So forget about the knockout until it comes to you.
20:53Yeah, just keep using your jab when things happen.
20:58Maybe five rounds down the road.
21:00You just can't push it.
21:02Come on, break clean, break clean, break clean, break clean, push it.
21:15Evans is finding out that Michael Moore really can hit with these uppercuts.
21:22Short uppercuts.
21:26Come on, break clean.
21:27Come on, punch out of there.
21:29This could be a rude awakening if he stays and let him throw those short shots.
21:42Hard shots by Evans.
21:44Giving Moore a rare opening to throw the uppercut.
21:47He lands one.
21:48And then Evans goes back to the leaning against the ropes act.
21:53Those ropes are so loose, he can lean back to the nearest casino.
22:01Watch ahead.
22:02Well, the most exciting part of this so far for me is listening to Teddy Atlas.
22:12All right, my brother.
22:12Let's hear more of him.
22:15Okay, you're dropping, you're bending back.
22:18Now we've got to work your job to give him something different.
22:20Okay?
22:21Are you listening to what I'm saying?
22:22Uh-huh.
22:22I want you to work your job to give him something different.
22:25When you throw the right hand, put that hook on him.
22:28I want the power off of that.
22:29I want you to go at a freaking slow, slow pace.
22:32Don't cooperate with him.
22:34All right?
22:34Now snap that jab.
22:36Get your distance off that jab.
22:37If he leans back on those ropes, I want to drive the left hand to the body.
22:41The body ain't going nowhere.
22:42Just the head is.
22:43All right?
22:44Don't smutty yourself inside and put your punches together.
22:47I want fours and I want fives.
22:49It'll make you miss one or two.
22:50But the third, the fourth, and the fifth are going to land.
22:53So when he starts doing that slide on, put them together.
22:56All right?
22:57Come on.
22:59Let's just let it start going now.
23:02Nice and alert.
23:03Nice and alert.
23:04Let it go.
23:04All right?
23:07Let's see if Moore listens to anybody.
23:14Evans is pretty clever.
23:16Keeps his right hand up.
23:19Moore is not going to land a right hook.
23:22He's going there straight left hand.
23:23So he's allowing him to have all of that right hook he wants.
23:31I wouldn't want to give Michael Moore too much of that right hook
23:35because he's knocked a lot of guys out with that punch.
23:37Yeah, but at this point, he don't want it.
23:39He want that straight left.
23:43That's not what he wanted at all.
23:44That's what he's trying to set up with this pawing jab, George?
23:47Yeah.
23:47He wants it.
23:48That's the hook, but that's not what he wants.
23:51First right hand, he was ineffective, but he's trying to.
23:54Straight left.
23:55That straight left isn't going to be there.
23:56Evans is just going to slide away from it, right?
23:58But that's, he's trained hard, and that's what he's put his mind on,
24:01and at this point, he doesn't want to change.
24:05He has a good right hook.
24:06He lands a straight left.
24:16Hardest punch of the bout so far.
24:18It was a glancing blow.
24:20Evans, whenever he missed, he should bump more.
24:32Bump into him with that big body.
24:34Miss, bump.
24:36He can never get hit, and plus, pays off later on.
24:38Yeah, he's got a 28-pound weight advantage, and he's not using any of it.
24:41There, he did listen.
24:44Michael Moore went to the body with three good shots when Evans leaned back on the road.
24:52A positive sign.
24:59I reckon he's hired as bowling.
25:01Yes.
25:05Yeah!
25:07Yeah!
25:08Yeah!
25:11Evans, sneaking in a lot on the break there.
25:17That's the way to do it.
25:18You sneak it in.
25:19Don't try to get too aggressive.
25:21After he throws something, sneak in a hard shot.
25:24Now, this guy should be the best clincher in the history of the business
25:27since he was a Greco-Roman champion.
25:30Yeah.
25:32I mean, I'm trying to find something for him.
25:36You can find something by knowing that he's the only guy around who will fight Michael Moore.
25:40The heavyweight champ of the world.
25:43That's right.
25:43He's here.
25:44He's here.
25:45Nobody else wanted a piece of Michael Moore.
25:51Not for $35,000.
25:56Get the head back!
25:57Blood trickling from the left nostril of Mike Evans.
26:11Harold Letterman, after four rounds, a quick synopsis.
26:16Larry, 40 to 36.
26:18Four rounds to nothing in favor of Michael Moore.
26:20Larry, I want to tell you, if anybody's screwed up tonight, it's the promoter.
26:23You just can't put on heavyweights after a featherweight fight.
26:26They're making it just too slow.
26:28Michael Evans is just trying to survive in this fight.
26:31Right now, he's bleeding from the nose and the mouth, taking a beating.
26:34By the way, the rule is, if he goes out onto the floor because of these loose ropes,
26:38he's got 20 seconds to get back into the ring unassisted.
26:41You know, I have the score the same way, Harold.
26:44Unlike our last fight, the Bo Holyfield fight, when I completely blew around early,
26:51giving it to Holyfield instead of Bo, this one is easy.
26:55They're making it easy to score, at least.
26:57Let's let the hands go.
26:58Let's let them start going now.
27:00He's finished.
27:02Let's go!
27:02Don't tell Evans he gets 20 seconds if he goes over the top of the ropes,
27:09or he'll be sailing onto our table at any moment.
27:13It could happen.
27:14It could happen.
27:14Let's go.
27:15Hard shot to the body, and it hurt, too.
27:28Yeah, that, I think, is the strategy that will work here, George.
27:31Just target the body for a long period of time.
27:34Emmanuel stood when he had Michael Moore.
27:36That right to the body, left to the body, would have been finished by right to the head,
27:41and another left to the body.
27:43And a knockout.
27:45Emmanuel's done a nice job at Holyfield, hasn't he?
27:49Telling you.
27:50The thing about good trainers, they should never involve themselves in management.
27:54Then your guy lose up, break it up with a manager and a trainer,
27:57and it just starts his career.
28:00Watch this one.
28:02Well, on that particular score, Emmanuel doesn't apparently agree with you.
28:07Yeah.
28:08Well, he doesn't have his fighter now,
28:09and he should have been a better fighter with Emmanuel Stewart as a trainer.
28:12Because Stewart brings out the aggression in a fight.
28:16That's right.
28:16And evidently, Moore had some dispute about his management part.
28:21Not about his training out here.
28:23If they get as loud here as they did during the featherweight fight,
28:31it will be for entirely the opposite reason.
28:36Another hard left of the body as Evans went backwards.
28:39It's always a big mistake to bring in the big heavies after a quick fight with lightweight fighters.
28:46For the crowd, that is.
28:48They just can't stand to be smoothed down after such an exciting bout.
28:52So the preliminary before a heavyweight bout should be a slightly lesser quality heavyweight bout.
28:58Should be bigger guys.
29:00Man, this would be fast moving.
29:01Wait a minute.
29:02Wait a minute, guys.
29:03I couldn't stand a fight worse than this.
29:08I want to come out of this evening with something.
29:10Larry, you sat through a fight worse than this.
29:13But you do get paid for it.
29:23A left and a right by Evans.
29:25Good right.
29:26Sharp right by Moore.
29:27Yep.
29:28Over the top.
29:31A natural right-hander who's been taught to fight left-hander.
29:35He can jab with that right hand, hook off of it, uppercut, uses it for a lot of different weapons.
29:40And it's a shame because a lot of people cannot appreciate the tactics that Mike Evans is using.
29:47He's fighting an extremely good puncher and he's moving in the right direction.
29:51Keeps his hands up at all times.
29:53Thinking it might happen in the latter round.
29:58You don't think he's fighting just the last, George?
30:01Not at all.
30:02He knows what he's got to do.
30:03He can't mix it up with this guy early on.
30:05Oh!
30:06He's...
30:07He's hitting there just making a miss.
30:16When you're throwing, he's defensive.
30:19When you're throwing, he's defensive.
30:20He's not doing anything with his hands.
30:23It's just when you're laying in front of him and you allow him to work.
30:25And if you do make a miss, you've got to throw back.
30:29Let's get him some water.
30:30I want to give you some definite things to do this round.
30:32I want you to work off that jab, slip to your right, throw the right hook to the body and the head.
30:38I'm going to give you...
30:38And then you'll find your way off that.
30:40But start doing things.
30:41When you get at that moment of truth range, off the jab, I want you to slip over.
30:45I don't want you to figure it out anymore.
30:47I want you to slip over, throw the right hook to the body and the head, and put your punches together.
30:52All right?
30:52Stop it.
30:53I like what Atlas is doing there.
31:06A fight rushes by so fast that a fighter doesn't even realize what's happening.
31:12And he is telling the world, look, do this, and then let the fight begin.
31:16Trying to give him something concrete to do.
31:19You know, it's strange because you've got to have a lot of pride when you start hearing
31:26boos in the audience and don't do anything.
31:29When you've got pride, you get ashamed.
31:31Come on, come on in, come on in.
31:32And I think Michael Moore could be in that position after hearing those boos.
31:35I just sneezed twice.
31:36Just a little ashamed.
31:37I just sneezed twice, George.
31:38I think I'm allergic to this fight.
31:41Okay, come on.
31:42Pick it up.
31:43Suddenly, Evans is on the offensive.
31:45He's on fire.
31:46He's on fire here, Larry.
31:49Okay, don't get carried away, Jeff.
31:52He's picking up the pace a little bit.
31:53He had a strategy.
31:55Come on, let go in there.
31:56Let go.
31:58Let's go.
32:05You've got to understand, when Rocky Marciano fights would go like this for round after round,
32:11then all of a sudden, the guy who was so great and so good was on the canvas,
32:15and Rocky was walking away looking like the greatest guy in the world
32:18because he knocked him out in the last.
32:21So you are casting Evans in the role of Rocky Marciano here, is that right?
32:25No, I'm just saying you shouldn't be bored when something is happening.
32:28It's like jazz.
32:29You've got to figure it out.
32:30Okay.
32:30You listen to jazz, George?
32:33I love jazz, when I can figure it out.
32:36Teach me about it sometime, okay?
32:41Jazz is in provision, and I don't see anything being improvised here that's memorable.
32:47What about the tassels on his trunk?
32:51Oh, yeah.
32:52The tassels on the trunks are very good.
33:00The crowd is chanting, George, George, George.
33:04They want the belly bump.
33:05They want to see you belly bump them, big man.
33:12And George waved and got the resulting cheer in response.
33:17And this kind of should be kind of frustrating for Michael Moore
33:20because he really wanted to get in there and show what he can do.
33:23He's in with a veteran who knows how to prevent a good fighter
33:26from doing what he wants to do.
33:29Good straight left hand.
33:30Well, if you're tuning in late
33:56and you're wondering which one of these guys
33:58is the number one-ranked heavyweight contender in the world.
34:01It's the fella in the black trunks,
34:03Michael Moore, the southpaw.
34:06Indecipherable so far.
34:19We're mine together right now?
34:21Let's get it together, okay?
34:23We've got 12 minutes.
34:25I want to work for those 12 minutes, all right?
34:28I don't want to save them for the dressing room.
34:31Now, when you get them off that jab, snap that jab.
34:33When you're at your arm's range, let their hands go off of that.
34:37You've got your good distance.
34:38You're not leaving yourself open.
34:40You don't have to go closer.
34:41You go closer, he smothers you.
34:42Let their hands go.
34:44Don't let them make you indecisive.
34:46Let them go with that range.
34:47When you hit them with that jab,
34:48let something just go off that range.
34:50Now, let me have a towel.
34:52Trust him yourself open.
34:53That way, you're going to be sitting nice.
34:55You see how you leave with that right hand?
34:57Let's go second.
34:57Good, good.
34:58You see how you leave with that?
34:59Let's go second.
34:59Come on.
35:00Let's go, man.
35:00See how you leave with that?
35:01Stop moving.
35:02Come on.
35:02Stop moving your hands.
35:03George, I've got a question.
35:07When you fought Ali and Zaire, and he did the rope-a-dope,
35:10were the ropes as loose as they are here tonight that allowed him to do that?
35:14Oh, I've got better excuses than that.
35:17I'm not trying to give you an excuse.
35:20I'm just trying to get a comparison because...
35:22Yeah, the ropes are awful loose here tonight,
35:24and it really benefits a guy who's trying to stay out of home's way.
35:28You get on those ropes, the guy thinks he has your body,
35:30then you lean back, and he's out of range.
35:33You've got to understand that Muhammad Ali fought a lot of fights
35:37in the same fashion that Evans was doing,
35:39but with the shuffle and the I'm the greatest and talking to his opponent,
35:44it camouflages out of that.
35:46If you can't do anything, make a sure out of not doing anything.
35:49And while you're a great kidder, George,
35:51let me make the point that you've never made public excuses for what happened in Zaire,
35:56and it was a quick stoppage by referee Zach Wheat,
35:58which you never complained about.
36:00I admire you for both of those.
36:01Watch that shoulder.
36:02Zach Wheat was an outshielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
36:08He, too, was guilty of the occasional quick stoppage.
36:10A little light banter here between these furious exchanges.
36:24Round seven of the 12-rounder, or the 10-rounder, I should say,
36:28between Michael Moore and Mike Evans.
36:30Mike Evans is starting to weave a right jab that Moore's throwing,
36:35so his confidence level is getting up, coming up more and more, too.
36:41And Moore is starting to get more aggressive and just wail away a little bit.
36:45That won't hurt the action, George.
36:49Moore has a deep, a real lot of bad cold.
36:51When you see him sit in his corner, you know he's doing a lot of coughing up.
36:54He has a bad cold, and his trainer's talking too much.
37:01Yeah, well, Teddy loves to talk.
37:02Sometimes you give a guy a lot of breathing room, and you tell him,
37:06just move your head a little bit, move your head a little more,
37:09and he'll do it all by himself.
37:11Two good straight lefts in the corner there by Moore.
37:14Move your head and just stay busy.
37:16Just refresh him in the corner, which is hard for trainers to do.
37:19Credit where credit is due.
37:21Moore is stepping up the activity level,
37:23landing more efficiently,
37:25and landing harder punches as round seven progresses.
37:30He himself has not lain on the ropes,
37:33so that is some progress.
37:36He has been the aggressive throughout.
37:40But there's little room for him to lay on the ropes, George,
37:44because Mike, or Larry, I should say,
37:46because Mike has taken up a lot of that space.
37:50Oh, hard left hand by Evans.
37:53He soothed him to sleep, and then he slapped him hard.
37:56You've got to be careful.
37:57Don't forget that Mike Evans is 244 pounds.
38:12Carol Letterman, after seven rounds, your scorecard.
38:16Larry, 70 to 63, 7 to nothing, Michael Moore.
38:20Larry, I've got to tell you something.
38:21I learned a lot about boxing from a great referee from New York Place
38:25to work with years ago, and then Lou Eskin.
38:27And in a fight like this, Lou would go to the corner and say to Michael Evans,
38:31if you don't fight, you don't get paid.
38:33And I want to tell you, that's what Victor Dracula should do right now.
38:37Go to the corner and tell this guy,
38:39either fight or I'm throwing you out of here and I'm not paying you.
38:43Because this is a joke.
38:45Evans is trying to survive, and it's all there is to it.
38:47I can remember also, Harold, the great Teddy Brainer,
38:53Teddy Brenner, the famous matchmaker and promoter,
38:59going himself to the corner and telling a fighter in this situation,
39:04you better fight or you'll never be back here again.
39:08But, of course, Evans doesn't care if he'll ever be back here in Reno again.
39:12In those days, that was in Madison Square Garden,
39:15and that was a real threat from the promoter.
39:18These days, if you try to, Mike Evans will own your home,
39:21your car, and everything else.
39:22In our litigious society.
39:29Excellent point, George.
39:44Two hard lefts from Moore again.
39:47Those punches hurt, too.
39:48Yeah, he's stepping up the energy level in these later rounds.
39:52Too bad Moore is depending on one and two shots, though.
39:56That was a time when he put together four four-shot combinations.
40:00Those days are gone.
40:02He will not be able to win a title throwing one and two shots like that.
40:06Do you think that the booing got to his pride, George?
40:10No doubt about it.
40:11He's trying to do the best he can,
40:13but he's fighting a guy who's not going to get in there and get hurt.
40:15I heard him tell his corner man,
40:19Mama didn't raise no food.
40:22I'm not going in there.
40:26Yeah, but if you don't take your hands out of your pockets, George,
40:29you can't win at the gambling table or in the ring.
40:32You've got to take some chances.
40:34He said this is a championship fight for him.
40:36Yeah, and you feel that way until you start tasting the power of Moore
40:42like he's starting to do now.
40:44Evans was momentarily staggered by the uppercut there.
40:48Punch out! Punch out!
40:50Let's go!
40:52Sometimes you can have 40 fights and never feel the shot of a heavyweight.
40:56You just never know that power.
40:58He's starting to feel a once-in-a-lifetime shot.
41:01You see how this big guy can just get upset and try to go out there and go out for Moore?
41:23He could whip Moore.
41:27No, he can't, George.
41:28Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay.
41:31He said too much.
41:34But you're trying.
41:35We like that.
41:36I saw Michael Evans fight Tony Tucker.
41:38And for eight rounds, he had Tucker beaten, actually,
41:41and just gave it up the last couple of rounds.
41:45That was during Tucker's blue period.
41:47No, that was in his late period on his comeback.
41:54If only Evans could dig in there.
41:58Digging in, fight back.
42:05You can train a fighter to do anything but that.
42:07Maybe he can pin him.
42:10Another one-sided round and a one-sided fight between Michael Moore and Mike Evans.
42:14Earlier this evening, in a semifinal bout on this card that you did not see here on HBO,
42:19a welterweight contender named Yoriboy Kappas from Mexico.
42:23In the orange shorts there, knocked out Floyd Williams.
42:27Knocked him out with a body punch in the fourth round to move his record to 54-0.
42:33Kappas, a welterweight contender whom you are likely to see down the road.
42:37You see Floyd Williams being countered out by Mills Lane there.
42:40And once again, it moved Kappas' record to 54-0 with 49 knockouts.
42:47He will be heard from in the welterweight division.
42:50Throw that jab on top and then throw the left uppercut.
42:52Anticipate.
42:53Don't wait to see it.
42:54Throw something on top.
42:55You lean forward.
42:56Just dip and throw the uppercut automatically.
42:58Then lean right into it.
42:59And if you lean forward inside, just adjust where you can throw an uppercut where you've fallen to it.
43:14You have to give this to Michael Moore.
43:17By changing trainers, he's really saying, I want to get better.
43:22I want to take advantage of these tools I have.
43:25He's trying something.
43:27This is not the opponent to look good trying it.
43:32He had three fights with Lou Duva and George Benton.
43:35A lot of people thought it was an odd pairing since Moore's stock in trade is punching power.
43:40And Duva and Benton have done best with technicians.
43:44He didn't like what they were telling him and he decided to move on.
43:48Biggest mistake, he let his trainer get away.
43:50Devanda Holifel has it now.
43:57He's a Detroit fighter with those punching habits.
44:01You need a Detroit trainer.
44:04He had those warrior instincts that come from long afternoons in the Croc Gymnasium in his years with Emmanuel Stewart.
44:12Now he's feeling his way along.
44:14But he may well be feeling his way toward a heavyweight title shot because, as Larry pointed out at the beginning of this particular bout, he is the mandatory challenger.
44:26In other words, if Holyfield wanted to fight somebody else next, e.g. Lennox Lewis, then Moore would have to get step-aside money.
44:36You've got to wonder, has he learned anything by fighting a guy like Mack Evans?
44:46I'd say yes.
44:48Be patient.
44:49The fight isn't won in the first and second round.
44:52Bo went out and tried to knock Holifel out in the first round and threw away most of his good energy.
44:56Moore knows now that he can pace himself and get a late round knockout.
45:01Late fight knockout.
45:01Sometimes you can learn a lot from these fights.
45:06A lot more than your people look like that you're going to learn.
45:18Good left hand inside.
45:21Moore has been landing at an extraordinarily high rate for the last couple of rounds.
45:28But will it take enough of a toll to bring a knockout?
45:31Well, only three minutes and 35 seconds left in which to answer that question.
45:39Strange thing about it, Michael Evans has shown the way to beat Michael Moore.
45:45Do the same thing, but use some power periodically.
45:52Moore has had late round knockouts in his career, too.
45:55Good double left hook by Mike Evans.
46:17Mike, last round, brother.
46:19All right, that is not too late.
46:21The double hook's working good.
46:24Right over there.
46:25Get that off a couple of times and go crazy on this man.
46:29Hey, you guys, these people can't get me.
46:30Let's see a fight out here this last round, okay?
46:32Last and final round.
46:33Come on, now.
46:34Put the hole.
46:34Last round, Mike.
46:35Keep your hands up.
46:36Keep your chin down.
46:38And get your punches off, all right?
46:39Michael, last and final round.
46:41These people paid a mission.
46:42Let's make good fights this last round, huh?
46:43Come on.
46:43Not him.
46:44Great advice.
46:45Let's not battle yourself this last three minutes, all right?
46:48Just him, not yourself.
46:50Off that jab.
46:51When you have your distance, he's conning you like that.
46:53Let the left hand go to the body.
46:55Don't fall in.
46:55And then the right hook on top to the head.
46:57Okay?
46:58I'm going to bounce, okay?
46:59Let's go.
47:00These people paid admission.
47:02How many times have you heard a trainer say to his fighter,
47:05these people paid admission?
47:07Well, that was at the bottom of everything Customato did as a trainer.
47:12Customato felt that this is a tough game,
47:16and the idea is to make money,
47:19and the way you do that is by being an aggressive, entertaining fighter.
47:24And we hear Teddy Atlas trying to instill and ingrain that in his fighter.
47:30Maybe a tough sell.
47:31Yesterday, when Harold Letterman gave a long sort of encomium to Moorer in his room
47:37about how entertaining a fighter he had been early in his career,
47:41I asked Moorer at the end of that discussion,
47:43does that mean anything to you?
47:45Does it matter to you that you're entertaining?
47:46And he said no.
47:49And two mores not taking advice of his trainer.
47:52He's trying for a knockout.
47:54He's not having fun.
47:56So you can see this trainer's not changing anything.
47:59Not so far, but he's only had eight weeks.
48:02He's not taking his advice.
48:04Teddy Atlas says that he believes Moorer punches as hard
48:07as the young Mike Tyson with whom he worked
48:10when he and D'Amato were developing the future heavyweight champion as a teenager.
48:15Mike Tyson did not punch with power.
48:17He punched with speed.
48:19And he would hit you in the proper spots and knock you down.
48:22I think most people would argue that he punched with speed and power, George.
48:25No, power, speed is power.
48:28When you're not a big guy.
48:32But we can all remember that in a fight not unlike this,
48:36how Mike Tyson was smothered by Bonecrusher Smith,
48:40and it was almost a replica of this kind of fight.
48:43Yeah, except that Bonecrusher did a lot of hugging and flinting.
48:47Right.
48:47Different than what Evans has done.
48:49Evans has got a wrestling hold.
48:51It's like one of those 6-0 professional football games, two field goals.
48:56No, no, they're all exciting in the NFL, Larry.
48:59Every game is a masterpiece.
49:04Yeah, if you throw your punches with...
49:06Come on, I'm coming.
49:07Let them go with speed and accuracy, you'll get a lot of knockouts.
49:10We could show you the people making their way to the exits to beat the traffic home,
49:17but we'll focus on the action in the ring.
49:20Suffice to say, they know who's going to win on the scorecard.
49:26Well, as Georgie Bettman, his former trainer, liked to say,
49:31just win this fight, you'll be exciting next time.
49:34Maybe Mora was listening to Georgie tonight.
49:42Mora has done everything he could, but he's a counterpuncher.
49:45The fight has not come to him, and he just couldn't do anything.
49:48Yep, I agree with you.
49:49And I think that Evans was simply there to survive from the beginning.
49:53And he survived.
49:55Maybe hoping to get lucky, but...
49:56Let's go.
49:58Not much chance of that.
50:00So, Evans didn't get lucky, and in the end, neither did we.
50:07Yes, we did.
50:08We had a great 12-round featherweight championship.
50:11Yeah, we were already lucky, that's right.
50:14Maybe we were like a crapshooter who's doubling up too much,
50:18has won a big pot, and he's looking to get another one too fast.
50:22Harold Letterman, your final scorecard.
50:28Larry, wasn't the toughest fight I ever scored in my life.
50:3110 to nothing, 100 to 90, Michael Mora.
50:34I want to tell you something, Michael Mora did learn something tonight.
50:37And what he learned was, was that the next time he fights,
50:40before the fight starts, you go out and make sure the ropes are tight.
50:43Because Michael Evans, all he did was lean back over those ropes
50:46so Mora couldn't hurt him.
50:48I mean, it was all Michael Mora.
50:50He wrapped him around for 10 rounds.
50:52An easy shutout for Mora.
50:55Agreed. Agreed.
50:57Another throwback to Benton and Dupa.
50:59Their fighters pitch more shutouts on the scorecards
51:01than anybody else's in the sport.
51:03The Pernell-Whitaker kind of a scorecard
51:05that you laid out there for Mike Mora.
51:13So there's the man,
51:15who may be the next to fight the man.
51:17If, in fact, he presses his right
51:20to a mandatory heavyweight challenge
51:22with Evander Holyfield.
51:24Right now, let's go up to our ring announcer,
51:26Michael Buffer, for the official decision.
51:29Ladies and gentlemen, all three judges,
51:31Bert Clements, Herb Santos, and Keith McDonald
51:34scored about the same.
51:35190 for the winner by unanimous decision.
51:39Still undefeated, ranked number one in the world,
51:43Michael Mora.
51:44Hey, good job, Harold.
51:49Thank you very much, Jim.
51:51Yeah, you're quite welcome.
51:52You're wrestling the muscle, but good job, I am.
51:54No, we know that.
51:55All right.
51:56Michael Mora with a unanimous shutout
52:00of Mike Evans.
52:02100 to 90 on all three cards,
52:04just as on Harold Lederman's.
52:06Let's go to Larry Merchant with the winner.
52:07All right, Michael, give us your assessment of the fight.
52:10First of all, thank God.
52:13He didn't really want to fight.
52:16Agreed.
52:16What did you get out of that then?
52:18Just 10 rounds of work, basically.
52:21Teddy wanted me to work my jab more,
52:22but I couldn't, I tried to get off,
52:25but he was, he's like a, he's a veteran,
52:26he's a con, man.
52:28Were the ropes too loose that somebody missed a stitch?
52:31Yeah, because he was going too far back.
52:32He was going too far back,
52:33and I was committing myself
52:34and making myself overrun.
52:37All right, now let's go to the next step.
52:40You are the mandatory...
52:41Now I'll answer all the questions about that, Larry.
52:42You are the mandatory challenger
52:44for the heavyweight championship of the world.
52:46Do you feel you will be better advised
52:48to have another fight or two with Teddy Atlas,
52:52perhaps against opponents
52:53that you can better show your stuff,
52:55or do you want to go directly to Evander Holyfield?
52:59First of all, what I'm thinking,
53:00I'd like to say I love my wife back at home.
53:03Love you, Bobby.
53:06I don't think that being with Teddy means anything.
53:10I don't think it means that I'm fighting
53:12some different than other people may anticipate,
53:15but you've got to look at the opposition in front of me.
53:17The guy today wanted to survive.
53:19Right, right.
53:20Evander, he's a true champion.
53:22He's a dedicated guy.
53:24Why wouldn't he fight me, first of all?
53:26Now, when that fight takes place,
53:29I'll be ready for it.
53:30There'll be a whole different story then.
53:32There's a possibility that they would offer you
53:35a whole bunch of money to stand aside, say,
53:38and fight the winner for a huge purse.
53:40Would you consider that?
53:42Because after a fight like this,
53:44the purse for a championship fight
53:46might not be as high as it would be down the road.
53:50Well, Larry, I couldn't answer that.
53:52I'll leave that up to my manager, John Davenmos.
53:56He's right here if you want to ask him
53:57and see what his response is,
53:59because I wouldn't know nothing about it.
54:00All right, thank you, Michael Moore.
54:02We've had a long night,
54:03and we have to go back to ringside with Jim and George.
54:06All right, so the question remains open
54:08whether Moore will take step-aside money
54:09to allow for a potential Holyfield-Lewis bout
54:12or whether he's going to press this right
54:14to the mandatory challenge.
54:15George, did you see anything tonight
54:17that gives you an indication
54:18as to what this guy would do against Holyfield
54:21if he gets in next?
54:22I know one thing,
54:22it's a shame to say
54:23giving someone step-aside money in boxing.
54:25I mean, that's shameful.
54:26This guy could do a lot better
54:28against an event of Holyfield,
54:29a guy who would try to knock him out.
54:31He could protect himself and get a knockout.
54:33I do believe he's ready for a title shot.
54:34I've said that a year ago.
54:36He's just wasting time not having a title shot.
54:38Michael Moore could be
54:39the next heavyweight champ of the world.
54:40And indeed, because of the way Holyfield fights,
54:43he might give Moore the chance
54:44to use that punching power
54:46that we didn't get to see tonight.
54:47And he could get up for that kind of opponent
54:49and really give a good show for himself.
54:51All right.
54:52Thanks very much.
54:53You know these heavyweights inside out, big man.
54:55I'm always impressed
54:56with what you have to tell us about those fights.
54:58Larry makes his way back down now from the ring.
55:01Your thoughts on what was
55:03a sort of Jekyll and Hyde evening of boxing.
55:06Great featherweight championship fight
55:08and then 10 rounds of heavyweight.
55:11Well, we did have one terrific fight.
55:13This is our last fight of the year.
55:15And I'd like to end it on a high note
55:17by looking backward over the year
55:19and say something about prize fighters,
55:21which is that these highly skilled risk takers,
55:24in my judgment,
55:26when they all enlarge the sense of ourselves,
55:30what they're willing to go through
55:31to show their skills.
55:33And this has been a terrific year in boxing.
55:36Heavyweight upsets all over the place.
55:39Michael Carbohal having a great fight.
55:41Chavez and Whitaker.
55:43Tony emerging as an outstanding fighter.
55:46Norris continuing as an outstanding fighter.
55:49Roy Jones winning the middleweight title.
55:51We're looking forward to a big, big year in 1994.
55:56Happy New Year to you and to all the fighters out there.
56:00All right.
56:00Thanks very much for that, Larry.
56:02And now, before we take a final look back
56:04at what happened in the ring,
56:06let's get you set up for two upcoming programs on HBO.
56:09One of them, another great HBO sports documentary
56:12following the tradition of play-by-play,
56:14a history of sports broadcasting.
56:16And when it was a game, the baseball documentary.
56:19This, the second installment of our series called
56:21In This Corner, you're gonna love it.
56:23A look at the little guys.
56:24Last year, HBO took an inside look at six giants of boxing.
56:33We not only captured an Emmy, we learned something.
56:37Being a giant has nothing to do with size.
56:40Now, HBO explores six more legends.
56:49From Sugar Ray to Sugar Ray.
56:51Pound for...
56:52You promised!
56:53Then, she got big.
56:55It's really for your own good, can't she?
56:57Now, she's getting even.
57:00Put the hostage down and keep your hands up so we can see them.
57:04Makes me.
57:04They'll never call her the little woman again.
57:07Makes me.
57:08Daryl Hannah is larger than life.
57:09I'm just looking for a little closure, that's all.
57:11In an HBO original movie, Attack of the 50-Foot Woman,
57:15premieres Saturday, December 11th on HBO.
57:19All right, so Daryl Hannah is larger than life,
57:22and so too was the WBC World Featherweight Championship fight
57:27which began the evening for us.
57:29As Kevin Kelly of Flushing, New York,
57:31won a unanimous decision over a terrific champion,
57:34Gregorio Vargas of Mexico.
57:36It was a 12-round battle in which both fighters showed you their best.
57:40Kelly, slightly the better technician,
57:43pounding out a victory by unanimous decision
57:45and becoming featherweight champ.
57:47And then, in 10 rounds of heavyweight fighting,
57:50the winner by a unanimous decision,
57:51a whitewash on all three scorecards,
57:54Michael Moorer, who pounded out the easy decision victory
57:57over Mike Evans to uphold his status
57:59as the number one contender for the World Heavyweight Championship
58:02in the eyes of the WBA and the IBF.
58:06We remind you, be sure to join us every Thursday night
58:08for HBO's Inside the NFL,
58:10when hosts Lynn Dawson, Nick Bonacani, and Chris Collins
58:12will bring you the show that all the pros watch.
58:15And coming up on HBO,
58:16stay tuned immediately following tonight's boxing coverage
58:19for Tales from the Crypt,
58:20Halfway Horrible on the East Coast,
58:22and Unforgetting and Harold Letterman.
58:24I'm Jim Lampley, saying so long from Reno, Nevada.
58:29The executive producer of HBO Sports is Ross Greenberg.
58:33Tonight's telecast was produced by Michael J. Whalen
58:35and directed by Mark Payton.
58:36The associate producers were Brian McDonald and...
58:39The producer were Dave Leapson.
58:43The production manager was John McKellie,
58:46and the technical supervisor was George Wenzel.
58:48The producer was John McKellie,
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