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Show Cl Wft THE DAILY HERALD, fiwv, I'tak. Sewday, April 28, 19 lite mm box? enplsioinis oil simply: vj&nt to fee rieh II NEW YORK ( AP) Christy Martin pulls no punches about why she is a professional fighter. "The money of course, I want to become w ealthy from boxing, Martin said. Martin made substantial headway to reaching her goal when she got her biggest purse of her 10-ye- ar career. SI 5.000. and worldwide exposure by k fighting on the Mike card Bruno last month. Martin again is expected to be a featured attraction on Tyson's next fight, scheduled for July 13. Tyson-Fran- w However, it is more than fame and fortune that makes her w ant to win Martin said during a whirlwind spin of promotional appearances and interv ie v. s here this week. "I have pride." said Martin, who is billed as the women's pound for pound champion v. ith 2 a record that includes 25 knockouts. "I want to pane to everybody that I am the best. In five or 10 years. I don't want somebody to say. 'Oh eah. she didn't fight so and so. so we don't know if she was the best.' " 35-2-- Martin was the star of her basketball team at Concord College in West Virginia near her hometown of Mullens, W. Va.. and started off boxing by winning a local Toughwoman competition with little training. "I'm an athlete." said the Martin. "1 am 133-pour- ul driven wanting to succeed. In my mind I have a very swong fear of failure. If I was to lose, I don't know how I could handle it. I couldn't handle it probably." So far, very few have been able to handle Martin's aggressive fighting stvle. Her only a man or to champion the cause of boxing, said Jim. "Whether women like it or not Christy is not a women's libber." wife. he said of his "She is not in boxing to change boxing. We are not out there w aving the banner for women." Said Martin.'i know I have w omen in ld legitimized Christy Martin, that's as far as I can go. I can't put all the women on my shoulders and try to legitimize the whole sport." Her last fight might have already done that. In a nonstop losses came w ithin the first three slugging match Martin pounded decision victory years of her career. Fourteen of out a her knockouts have come in the over Deirdre Gogany of Ireland. first round, including three of The fight opened people's eyes w ith the skills of the fighters and her last 10 fights. like Mike "fights by the blood streaming out of "Christy Tyson and Joe Fraier." said her Martin's nose. d husband and trainer 52-"I think some people have a Jim Martin. "She takes it to you." misconception there." Martin But. he has also taught her jaid of her bloody nose. "They well. Martin attacks with solid see blood, they think hurt. Realbodv shots and has a stinging jab. ly, that is untrue. Just because "Skiil-wi- e would match vour nose is bleeding, doesn't her against an fighter in the mean that you are hurt. I never world," said Jim. "I've seen was in trouble in the fight." some good men out there who Future opponents though don't have the skills that she has. might be in for even more trouShe tights like a man." ble if she gets better as Martin six-rou- v HOW TO AKSU1 AKD Jxnn ivttYTUsi 12.9S List This runowoy notional best seler teaches you how to compose, prepare and deliver winreng uijui'wds (or ewjrydoy situations. And here's proof t i rec&y worts: oufhor and attorney Gerry Spenot has never lost o cnminol trial in his entire legal career ear-ol- St Martin s Griffin PS 1 But. don't ask her to either fieht IN TKI NAJ&I Of K. SOXXOW AKO HOif K 31.00 Lie When nineteen year old Noo spoU at tie funeral (or her grandfather Yitzhak Rabin, she touched the world's heart Now she does so 03010. in tus deeply fnovng memoir and plea tor peace said is verv likely. HC Knopf IRVIN: j ny farni everyone w ho had been in the room, a grand jury indicted Nabw angu and Irv in on a felony charge of cocaine possession and a (Continued from Page C9 Dallas, If You're A Success." That's got to bode well for Michael Irv in. ; Jerry Jones, the oil wildcatter who owns the Dallas Cowboys, has already handicapped Irvin's . court proceedings. He'll be playing football this fall. Book it. Won't even miss a minicamp. Here's w hat led to ail of this: On March 4. the day before Irvin's 30th birthday, a police officer knocked ;on the door of Room 624 at the Residence Inn in Irving after the night manager called 911 and said he suspected there might be prostitution and drug use going on inside. ! The officer. Mike Drum, told Sports Illustrated that when he spotted In in in the room through a cloud of marijuana smoke, the football plaer said to him: "Hey. 'can I tell you who I am?" Drum told the magazine that he had already known it was Irv in and felt so embarrassed for him that he averted his eves. When Drum and three other .officers started looking around, they found, according to police. 3 ounces of marijuana. 2 ounces of cocaine, drug paraphernalia, and two vibrators. There were four people in the Irv in: Alfredo Roberts, 31. room rvin's close friend and former pro and college teammate; Jasmine Nab-'angu. 21 ; and Angela Beck. 22. Beck, who initially told author-line- s that the drugs were hers, was ;the only one arrested that night. ' On April . after taking testimo w 1 misdemeanor charge of t tarijuana possession. Irv in faces a possible 20 years in jail on the cocaine charge, offenders often, although first-tim- e though not always, get only fines and probation. ft At the Cowboys' annual media session last Tuesday, Jones said the "Irv in situation" would not figure at all in the team's draft strategy. "The incidents and the issues the legal will not keep him impact of it from being involved in our mini-camand our season." If it were the result of an NFL game that Jones w as predicting w ith such certainty, a reasonable question might be: Then w hy plav the game? "Some people say this stuff hap peas because of the w ay Jerry goes about things or the way Barry goes about things, like they're setting some kind of bad example for us." said Cow boys veteran Bill Bates. Bates, a safety, is referring to Jones, the ow ner. and Barry Sw iter. the coach. Both have reputations as high-liveand Jones lost his previous coach. Jimmy Johnson, on a liquor-soake- d evening three years ago pre-dra- ar rule-pushe- rs after the owner was overheard boasting in a bar that any of 500 coaches could guide the Cowboys to a Super Bow l. This year. Jones cut promotional deals w ith Pepsi and Nike even though the NFL has exclusive contracts with Coke and Reebok and argued that if w as Texas Stadium, and not the Cow bin s, that had entered into the agreements. Sw itzer lost his longtime job as coach at the University of Oklahoma after a spate of arrests involing "Please." Bates continued. veoLi W.1US "That is such a simplistic explanation, in my opinion, to lay it on Jerry and Barry . Go back and look at the Cowboys under Tom Landry. He w as a great coach, and a great Christian man who lived an exemplary Christian life. And w e had all the same problems we have now. We had drugs. We had alcohol abuse. We had arrests." This past season. Sw itzer's second as coach, defensive line man Leon Lett w as suspended for four games by the NFL after testing positive for marijuana Defensive back Gayton Holmes was banned for tlie season after testing positive for cocaine. The year before, offensive tackle Erik Williams, driving while drunk, was seriously injured in a one-ca- r crash after a postgame party attended by several Cowboys. And it was Williams who faced charges, later dropped, of unlawful sex with a teenage topless dancer. There have also been published reports in Dallas that some Cowboys maintained a residence they called the "White House" for parties and liaisons w ith women other than their wives. "America's Team." Bates said, HAQD3VGQ lifi tillwllffl Bffirgifl MB c:cvi rea a DjvM List 34.00 This is David lindses most iweeng novel since Mercy, and I may very weJ t become one of moet papular espionage lent to come tor years. Doubledoy HC r 3k Mm una. ha boldest Stephen King continues experiment i terror yet O mule-par- t serial novel sSat begins an Death Row and burrows inward to lie most homfic secrets of the human heart. 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