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Issue #06/61, March 25 - April 7, 1999  smlogo.gif

Promoters Square Off

In This Issue
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Book Review

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The Irish in Moscow
More Sports Clichés
Promoters Square Off
Negro Comix

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The Lennox Lewis-Evander Holyfield decision has the sporting world up in arms, but close students of boxing knew it was just the same old story. So did anyone who's lived in Russia in the past ten years. In both cases, you learn after a while to expect that the fix is in. This week, the eXile wonders aloud--who's more corrupt, Lewis-screwing fight fixer Don King, or IMF-screwing auction fixer Anatoly Chubais? You be the judge.

Oooooooo, Chubais has been Shaq-fu'ed by King!
Don King Anatoly Chubais
1. Specializes in sweet-talking white people, who think he's really smart, for a black guy 1. Specializes in sweet-talking Western politicians, who think he's pretty smart, for a Russian
2. Fixes fights 2. Fixes auctions
3. Quotes Shakespeare 3. Quotes Keynes
4. Looks like he got his finger caught in a socket 4. Runs RAO-UES power company
5. Grew up in a shitty part of Cleveland 5. Grew up in a country where most people would do anything to emigrate to a shitty part of Cleveland
6. Inflated promoter fees 6. Inflated book advances
7. Wears dashiki 7. Carries laptop
8. Used to chill with rapist Mike Tyson 8. Lets Lawrence Summers address him as "Anatoly" in public
9. TVKO 9. RTR
10. Suspicious last-minute wagers placed on Holyfield in Carribean casinos noted in press 10. Suspicious GKO purchases made from mysterious investment accounts in Barbados noted in press
11. Robbed deserving champion of title belt 11. Engineered Yeltsin's reelection, but there were no deserving alternatives

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