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                    [Title] => Ex-boxing champion Jimmy Ellis dies at 74
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Jimmy Ellis, a heavyweight champion who sparred with an up-and-coming Muhammad Ali and later fought some of the era's best boxers, died Tuesday (Wednesday Manila time). He was 74.

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Boxing great Muhammad Ali’s recent tweet expressing hope for a showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao has taken the Twitter-verse by storm.

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Several weeks ago, we got our copies of six books on professional boxing that chronicle some of the sport’s finest moments and practitioners.

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"It gets frustrating," Elorde told The STAR. "We try so hard to put up world title fights here, and we often lose money, but we wouldn’t mind if we got support from media, sponsors and the government. And people don’t recognize our good new boxers because the media doesn’t support them."
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Jimmy Ellis, a heavyweight champion who sparred with an up-and-coming Muhammad Ali and later fought some of the era's best boxers, died Tuesday (Wednesday Manila time). He was 74.

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Boxing great Muhammad Ali’s recent tweet expressing hope for a showdown between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao has taken the Twitter-verse by storm.

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Several weeks ago, we got our copies of six books on professional boxing that chronicle some of the sport’s finest moments and practitioners.

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"It gets frustrating," Elorde told The STAR. "We try so hard to put up world title fights here, and we often lose money, but we wouldn’t mind if we got support from media, sponsors and the government. And people don’t recognize our good new boxers because the media doesn’t support them."
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