Funeral arrangements are pending for Michael Dokes, a former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion who died this week of liver cancer. The Akron Beacon Journal reported that the boxer spent his last days in a hospice. Dokes won the heavyweight title at 24 in December 1982, when referee Joey Curtis made a controversial decision to [...]
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