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Pastimes : Boxing: The Sweet Science -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LPS5 who wrote (2436)	3/25/2001 8:19:18 PM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 10489

Short jabs 3/25/2001 LAS VEGAS - Tua made an odd comeback Friday night from his one-sided loss to Lewis last November that he called ''embarrassing.'' He knocked out Danell Nicholson with sweeping left hooks that twice flattened Nicholson before referee Joe Cortez stopped the fight 34 seconds into the sixth round. Before those punches, Nicholson had controlled Tua the same way Lewis had, with a long jab and some body punches. Nicholson lacked Lewis's heavy hands so Tua remained relentless this time. He kept marching forward, winging his trademark wild punches until one exploded off Nicholson's chin late in the fifth round and dropped him flat. He got up but was not the same and when Tua trapped him on the ropes and landed another huge hook early in the sixth round, Nicholson went down in a heap. Cortez stopped the fight at that moment. Nicholson protested, but it was not until five minutes later when he regained his senses. Tua's power was obvious once again but so, too, was his vulnerability. He will fight once more to see if he can win back the International Boxing Federation's No. 1 ranking. If he gets it though, so what? It would only mean another fight with Lewis, and nothing Tua showed Friday indicated a second fight would be any different than the first unless he gets lucky. Very lucky ...