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Kronos: 1940-present |
 | | If a kid is inclined to be a boxer, don’t try to make a slugger out of him. |
| | (Nationally televised boxing deaths included Ed Sanders in 1954, Benny Paret in 1962, and Kim Duk Koo in 1982.) To keep the shrinking arena crowds, referees everywhere became increasingly reluctant to stop fights early. |
| | Today, however, Johnson is best remembered as the fight arranger for The Karate Kid, a Hollywood movie that portrayed excessive contact and unsportsmanlike conduct as the norm rather than the exception during tournament competition. |
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