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I use specific fights (BOXING) to remember my life. Generally speaking, if you tell me a fight I saw I can tell you who I was friends with at the time, where I was and what I was doing.
Example, exhibit A: 1. October 10, 1987 Frank Tate vs Michael Olajide for the IBF middleweight title.  I was fighting in the finals of the National PAL tournament in Jacksonville, Florida that day against Kertis Mingo at 165 pounds and we watched the Tate - Olajide fight in our hotel room before we left for the arena. (Tate W-12 Olajide)
2. August 19, 1982. I was in the police explorers staying at Westover Air Force Base for the Police Explorers Academy week when they let us take a trip to a store off base and I read in the newspaper that Alex Ramos had lost the previous day to Ted Sanders.
3. Marlon Starling-Mark Breland rematch in (March??) 1988. I watched it at the Civic Pub downtown Hartford with my boy Dan Nolan and it was so crowded and loud that I could not hear the decision announced but I left there assuming that Marlon had won the decision. I did not find out until the next morning that the fight had been called a draw. 
4. Mike Tyson-Carl “The Truth” Williams -I believe it was June 1989- and I watched it with my friend Mark at Monia Goin‘s house at Squire Village in Manchester
5. Chavez-Sweet Pea, D-12. Watched it at Pepe Vazquez’ apartment on Capital Ave. in Hartford…thought Pea won that one clearly!!! 
Example, exhibit A: 1. October 10, 1987 Frank Tate vs Michael Olajide for the IBF middleweight title.  I was fighting in the finals of the National PAL tournament in Jacksonville, Florida that day against Kertis Mingo at 165 pounds and we watched the Tate - Olajide fight in our hotel room before we left for the arena. (Tate W-12 Olajide)
2. August 19, 1982. I was in the police explorers staying at Westover Air Force Base for the Police Explorers Academy week when they let us take a trip to a store off base and I read in the newspaper that Alex Ramos had lost the previous day to Ted Sanders.
3. Marlon Starling-Mark Breland rematch in (March??) 1988. I watched it at the Civic Pub downtown Hartford with my boy Dan Nolan and it was so crowded and loud that I could not hear the decision announced but I left there assuming that Marlon had won the decision. I did not find out until the next morning that the fight had been called a draw. 
4. Mike Tyson-Carl “The Truth” Williams -I believe it was June 1989- and I watched it with my friend Mark at Monia Goin‘s house at Squire Village in Manchester
5. Chavez-Sweet Pea, D-12. Watched it at Pepe Vazquez’ apartment on Capital Ave. in Hartford…thought Pea won that one clearly!!! 
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