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FORONDA v. HAWAII INTERN. BOXING CLUB

No. 21703.

25 P.3d 826 (2001)

96 Hawai`i 51

Reynaldo FORONDA, as Special Administrator for the ESTATE OF Jeffrey Arciaga FORONDA, Reynaldo Foronda, and Candida Foronda, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HAWAII INTERNATIONAL BOXING CLUB, County of Hawaii, Defendants-Appellees.

Intermediate Court of Appeals of Hawai`i.

Certiorari Denied July 2, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip L. Carey, (Ahmadia & Carey), on the briefs, Hilo, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Sidney K. Ayabe and J. Thomas Weber, on the briefs, Honolulu, for defendant-appellee Hawaii International Boxing Club.

Michael B. Dabney, Deputy Corporation Counsel, on the briefs, for defendant-appellee County of Hawaii.

BURNS, C.J., WATANABE and LIM, JJ.

Opinion of the Court by LIM, J.

On September 14, 1923, in New York City, the fabled heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey defended his title against Luis "Angel" Firpo, who outweighed him by well over twenty pounds. Dempsey, a veritable hatchet, chopped his man down in the second round, but not before the ursine Firpo knocked him through the ropes and out of the ring. Boxing lore has it that ringside reporters helped Dempsey back into the ring, enabling him to...

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