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Let’s go back in time, way back, to the summer of 1987. For it was then that rising star Mark Breland fought live on ABC Sports one Saturday afternoon. Breland, a former Olympian, was supposedly on his way to big things. Already a featured attraction, the young man was out to prove he was as good as promised.
His opponent that day was one Marlon Starling, a veteran brawler from Connecticut with an extensive career and a unique, peek-a-boo defensive style. Starling had fought and lost to Donald Curry twice and was now being viewed as the kind of opponent who could help Breland up his game. In short, Starling was a tune up, a spoke on a ladder that reached up into the heavens.
Who’d have thought it would be Starling who would walk out of the ring with Breland’s WBA Welterweight title that afternoon? Who’d have thought the salty warrior would not only defeat, but outright knock out, one of boxing’s golden children?
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