European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday april 8. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Bucks pass Sawyer the super fights super numbers Don t do much for Robert boo boo Sawyer s Bank account. We have Over $27 million in the bunk promoter Bob arum said prior to monday night s sugar Ray Leonard marvelous Marvin Hster boxing Thow. Al $30 million the promotion makes a 13 million profit Al $50 million the profit is Between sb.5 and j9 million everything is in million 12 of them Guaran teed Tor Hagler ii of them As ,.,red for Leonard plus substantial pieces of. The promotion. Sawyer a welterweight will make $2,000 for fighting eight rounds against Rico Lopez on the big fight s under card. His payday would be leu than that except that Sawyer has been bouncing around boxing for seven Yean and this it a big Money Thow. We never pay leu than $100 a round for under card tighten arum said. For a big promotion like this the Price a higher.1 Sawyer s highest Price through an up and Dow career has been $7,500. Monday night s paycheck is More representative of his usual earnings. I m not getting Rich he said quietly. But then the bravado that bums brightly inside the head of every Man who tapes his fists and climbs into the ring surfaced. I m n Young Man Sawyer said. Eventually til get a fight they think i la lose and i la win and it going to put Roe in the that limelight is addictive. It is what under card fighters strive for the dream that someday they will be making big Bucks. Some make it. More Don t. Sawyer is realistic enough to know that at age 28 and with 12 losses he is approaching Journeyman status in a business that is not kind to people carry ing that tag. I know i know he said but if i m a journey Man i Vegol nobody to blame for that but myself i got myself in that in 1982, boo boo Sawyer won the esp welterweight championship Healing Jerry Cheatham. He held it five months before losing to Luis re so. I beat him to death for 10 rounds but he stopped me in the 12th," he said. It was my own fault. I was t in shape. I went into a Down slide after i won he Lite. I sorted running around hanging out in the toss to Rosto started a slide of four defeats in five fights that dropped Sawyer from he class of promising boxers to the level of opponent a Guy in the other Corner a Guy who won t do serious dam age to your Man. Guys can t take me for granted Sawyer argued. They have to fear me i m not an opponent. Guy just have to wonder which boo boo will show up. From now on they la say it s the boo boo who won the title i never had nothing in my life. When i won it i did t know How to handle it. Now i still Sawyer s most important function forthe last four months has not been reconstructing his own Carter. He has been a sparring partner for Leon Ard. He is a Southpaw like Hagler and his Speed made him helpful. So he became training Camp Fod Der for the Mam Man. This is a Job Sawyer has done before. Leonard found him in Hector Macho Camacho s Camp. Before that. Boo boo worked with Hagler gelling him ready for the Alan Minter fight when the mar Velous Man won the middleweight title. Boxing is All Sawyer knows and All he docs. This is it he said. I m always in the the the bravado surfaced again. I think in terms of the at 28? with 12 losses i know there Are a lot of Good welterweight around Bui i m Good too. Working with Leonard has helped me. I be picked up things. He s made me a belter for Leonard Sawyer was something of a race horse. Marvin hits harder than i do he said but i Vegol Speed. If he can gel Wuy from me hell get away from Hagler. If i got a Chance to hit him 1 do it. You know Hagler will. So you let Fly. You Don t hold Back 1 Goin there and do my Job. This is no Lime to think about holding Back for their own Fiehs sparring partners work with each other. They Don t Nave the luxury of picking and choosing to match a spar mate with an oppo nent s particular skills. Thai privilege belongs to the stars the leonards and haulers the ones malting the Money. The salary for a sparring partner like that for an under card fighter in t great. The Money varies said Sawyer who has not fought Lince december 1985, it depends who the opponent is. I won t Tell you what i m making except this is the Best i be Ever been paid for sparring. But it s not enough to make a living i do it because this is what i want to even at bargain basement prices for a fight thai will generate millions the Money makes you feel mad but they be got big people backing them. I messed myself up. Maybe 1 could t be getting is i million but i could be making $50,000 or $23,000 if had kept my head on right. I m Here to prove boo boo is Back. I can t lose this fight. I be got to win and i be got to look impressive winning. The door has opened Back up for me and the Money my Money will come he said sounding Hope Ful if nol convinced. Not monday night it won Wennlund tops javelin record at Texas relays Austin. Texas a Texas javelin thrower Dor Wennlund the 1986 Mcaa Champion broke his own collegiate re Cord saturday Wilh a toss of 271 feet. I Inch in the 60th Texas relays. Wennlund won the Texas relays event for the third straight year and improved on his old record or 268-7. The american record is Tom Petr nofts 280 i and West Germany s Kaui Tad Meier holds the world record of 281-3. Texas Christian won its i lib straight 400-meter relay race stretching aver two seasons Wilh a 39.54 clocking. The frogs won without Roscoe Tatum. Who was injured in Friday s preliminaries. Greg Sholars replaced Tatums the cad offend Byron Morrow ran the third leg. Texas Southern s Chris Walker set a Texas re lays Long jump record of 26-9 but finished second in the event to Northeast Louisiana s Andre Ester who had a wind aided leap of 27-7w. Curry closer to title with win Over Santos Donald Curry. Raises record to 27-1 Las vegas nay. A former welterweight Champion Donald Curry moved a step closer saturday to a world Junior middleweight title fight when opponent Carlos Santos was disqualified for head butting in the fifth round of their scheduled 12-Nound fight. It was he second straight Light hat Curry has won on a disqualification. On feb. 7, Tony Montgomery was disqualified in the fifth round for head butting. Referee Carlos Padilla who had warned Santos twice for butting and had taken away paints in the fourth and fifth rounds for repealed fouls finally slopped the bout at 2 25 of the fifth round. The end came after a final Bult by Santos stunned Curry and Cut him Over he right Eye. Curry backed away and looked at Padilla who moved in and motioned Santos off to end the bout. Curry of fort Worth Texas retained his . Boxing association 154-Poundlillc and moved in line for a possible world title fight at that weight in his next fight. Santos a former International boxing federation 154-Pound Champion from puerto Rico was trailing Badty on the scorecards of the ringside judges when the fight was slopped. Curry fighting for the second time since losing his undisputed welterweight title last september to England s Lloyd Honyghan look control of the fight Early when he stunned Santos i
