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TITO RETURN MISTAKE?
Will Felix Trinidad Regret his Return to Ring?
Boxing Comebacks a Mixed Bag

NEW YORK- Whether it's money brings them back, the roar of the crowd or just to improve one's place in history, there are more boxers who later regret the decision to return to the ring.

Puerto Rican superstar Felix "Tito" Trinidad will find out whether he
made the right decision to come back on Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, against Ricardo Mayorga.

Fighters who have been successful in comebacks include legends like Sugar Ray Leonard emerging victorious in his first comeback versus Kevin Howard-and, second, against another legend, Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

If it had ended there it would have been better for Leonard, but it did
not. Leonard failed in another comeback against Terry Norris as well as Hector Camacho.

Others who were successful in their comebacks include Muhammad Ali coming out of enforced retirement after three-and-a-half years to beat Jerry Quarry in his 1970 comeback fight. There are others who were successful, the obvious one and Poster Child of all comebackers, George Foreman.

Go way back, almost to the time Father Adam was dispossessed, and you'll find Jim Jeffries failing against Jack Johnson in 1910. Then there was Benny Leonard's failed comeback against Jimmy McLarnin.
Add the names of Joe Louis and Floyd Patterson to the list of failed
comebacks.

Sugar Ray Robinson failed early on the comeback trail, against Ralph Tiger Jones; but he persevered and knocked out Carl Bobo Olson to recapture the middleweight title.

The final media poll for Saturday's middleweight clash in Madison Square Garden between Tito Trinidad and hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-talking and hard-punching Ricardo Mayorga shows that 82 per cent of the respondents believe the fight will end in a knockout.

Media members from around the world were asked if they believe the fight will end in a knockout. Of the 99 respondents, 81 said yes, with only 18 believing the judges will be asked to determine the outcome.

While considering a knockout, the ring records of both fighters show that Mayorga has never been knocked down in his entire professional career.

However Trinidad has been knocked down by seven different fighters: Bernard "The Executioner" Hopkins, 9/29/01; Tko by 12; "Ferocious" Fernando Vargas, 12/2/00, round 4; David Reid, 3/3/00, round 3; Kevin Leushing 1/11/97, round 2; Oba "Motor City" Carr, 12/10/94, round 2; Luis "Yory Boy" Campas, 9/17/94, round 2; and Anthony Stephens, 10/23/93, round 2.

The media remains undaunted by the 7-0 disparity in knockdowns favoring Mayorga . . . as 71 per cent pick Trinidad to win by knockout!

Of those who tip a knockout, nobody tipped round one. The tipping warms up from round five onward. Here's the exact round they think the fight will end:

Round 2 1
Round 3 2
Round 4 3
Round 5 10
Round 6 13
Round 7 19
Round 8 9
Round 9 10
Round 10 10
Round 11 3
Round 12 1.

Tickets priced at $1,000, $700, $400, $250, $150 and $75, are on sale at the Garden box office, and all TicketMaster locations.