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Rocky actor, former linebacker Carl Weathers dead at 76

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Rocky actor, former linebacker Carl Weathers dead at 76

Carl Weathers, a former NFL and CFL linebacker who became a Hollywood action movie and comedy star — playing nemesis-turned-ally Apollo Creed in the Rocky movies, facing off against Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator and teaching golf in Happy Gilmore — has died. He was 76. Matt Luber, his manager, said Weathers died Thursday. His family issued a statement … Read more

How Francis Ngannou Shocked the Boxing World

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How Francis Ngannou Shocked the Boxing World

Mixed martial arts was designed to sniff out frauds. The U.F.C., the sport’s dominant company, was launched in 1993, with a championship that matched a wide range of fighters, to determine which styles were effective in real life, or at least a caged simulation of it. (The U.F.C. rule set was notably inhospitable, for instance, … Read more