question: Boxing was long viewed sickly. Generally forbidden by law in earlier days, the fighting was usually done with bare fists, and matches often lasted forty or fifty rounds.

In 1882 John L. Sullivan, a fighter of great power, won the world heavyweight championship from Paddy Ryan in a bare fisted battle marked by hitting, scratching, and biting without any rule. Five years later, while fighting Patsy Cardiff at Minneapolis, Sullivan broke his right arm in the third round, but he continued fighting to the sixth round and won. In 1889, Sullivan defeated Jade Kilrain with his bare fists in another championship fight, winning twenty thousand dollars and a diamond prize medal. His admirers talked then of running him for the next governor, but he traveled to Australia for a boxing tour instead, coming back only to lose his title in a twenty-one-round match with a young Californian named James J. Corbett.

"Gentleman James" victory in this match marked a turning point, for it showed scientific boxing was over strength. But Corbett's title ended in 1897, when another boxer, Bob Fitzsimmons, in less than three seconds, achieved his feats and then Fitzsimmons knocked out an Irishman, won the heavyweight championship of the world, and invented the terrible "solar plexus punch."
1. How was boxing viewed?
2. Was it allowed by law?
3. How many rounds do matches last?
4. Who won the 1882 world heavyweight championship?
5. What happened to Sullivan five years later?
6. Was he defeated?
7. How did he fight?
8. How much did he win?
9. What else?
10. When did Corbett's title end?
11. Who beat him?
12. What did he create?
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answer: 1. sickly
2. no
3. forty or fifty
4. John L. Sullivan
5. he broke his right arm in a match
6. no
7. with his bare fists
8. twenty thousand dollars
9. a diamond prize medal
10. 1897
11. Bob Fitzsimmons
12. the "solar plexus punch."

question: (CNN) -- The man closest to Tiger Woods when he plays golf says he had no idea about the extramarital affairs that have sidelined Woods from the game.

Steve Williams, Woods' caddy and confidant for nearly a decade, talked to New Zealand's TV3 about the scandal.

"I knew nothing," Williams said in an interview posted on the station's Web site Thursday. "I don't need to clarify it, extend that answer. I knew nothing."

Williams said he's heard the calls from some that he should be fired for not preventing Woods' downfall. "In some people's perception, I'm involved with it, and I've committed a crime or done wrong," he said.

"If the shoe was on somebody else, I would say the same thing, it would be very difficult for the caddy not to know," he said. "But I'm 100 percent telling you, I knew nothing, and that's that."

Williams' wife, Kirsty, defended her husband, insisting he would not have been able to keep the secret from her or Woods' wife, Elin Nordegren.

"The four of us are so close," she told TV3. "Being so close, he couldn't know and not say something to Elin or myself. You know, it's just, that's the way it is."

Woods, 34, apologized last month in a tightly controlled televised statement for his "irresponsible and selfish" behavior, which he said included infidelity.

The February 19 statement was his first public appearance since he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree near his home in November. The crash and reports about why it happened sparked a barrage of infidelity allegations against the golfer, who has two children with his wife.
1. What famous person is featured?
2. How old is he?
3. And who spoke to TV3?
4. Who is she related to?
5. And does the caddy have a wife?
6. What was her name?
7. Did she side with her hubby?
8. Were the Williams close to the Woods?
9. How long was Steve and Tiger's confidant?
10. When did Tiger first speak on the subject?
11. After what event?
12. What did he hit?
13. What else?
14. When did this happen?
15. Did he have kids at the time?
16. How many?
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answer:
1. Tiger Woods
2. 34
3. Elin Nordegren
4. Woods
5. yes
6. , Kirsty,
7. yes
8. yes
9. nearly a decade
10. February 19
11. he crashed his black Cadillac Escalade
12. a fire hydrant
13. a tree
14. November.
15. Yes
16. two