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Luke Tyson-Vladimir Klitschko has been postponed from Oct. 24 to Nov. 28 in Dusseldorf due to Vlad's calf-injury.  Sold-out with 55 thou, boxing is much more popular in Europe, they've gotten 80 thou at Wembley in London.  Due to his acid-tongue, a lot of people would like Fury to get his comeuppance and a good-beating, an Irish Traveller (See My Blog for Aug. 25, 2013), Luke will go as long as humanly-possible but Vlad is still too good, we'll see.  I finally saw "Love Ranch," it was on TV last week.  When it came out in 2010, it was shown only in a couple of faraway theaters, it got bad reviews and was a flop, oh, it was a fine-movie.  Oscar Bonavena (Sept. 25, 1942 to May 22, 1976) was one of the best heavyweight boxers of his era (58-9-1, 44 KO's), fighting-well against both Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali at their peak.  At 5'10.5" and 218 lbs., Oscar was a brawler who kept-coming.  A free-spirit who enjoyed life outside of the ring, the Argentine was on the downslide when he was brought by Joe Conforte, the owner of the Mustang Ranch (brothel), to train on its 440 acres.  In the movie, Helen Mirren, really does a fine-job of portraying Sally Burgess, a former madam and Joe's wife, an old lady with a cane who became a young, big-time athlete's love-interest.  A jealous Joe banished both Oscar and his wife from the Mustang Ranch, but Oscar returned to Sparks (outside of Reno) and got into a confrontation with guards at the Ranch, and was shot through the heart with a rifle.  On the face, it doesn't sound-good that one of Argentina's greatest sports-heroes comes to the U.S. and returns in a box, but Oscar enjoyed that dangerous-environment and being-around that type of people.  Oscar had one of Buenos Aires' biggest funerals with 150 thou filing-past his coffin