The Sparring Partner

March, 2001

Rita, she got herself some serious problems," Papa John Crines says to Louis, who's standing on his left, wearing pillowy sparring gloves and a protector strapped over a pair of sweatpants. They're watching a woman with honey-colored skin doing stretches in the ring. "This big Dutchman use to train her when she was kickboxin' been comin' round here houndin' her ass. Sayin' he gon' drag her off to Amsterdam. Scarin' the shit out of her. She gettin' her ol' bad habits back."Tiny, wi...

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