Without Stopping: Aaron Pryor, Champion at Last

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This particular dream—a championship and the distinction that came with it—would inspire bedlam. First, in the ring, where a mob stormed Pryor, in celebration, for what seemed like an eternity. (When Pryor finally broke free, he wept in his corner.) Then, later, when his world went haywire and chaos became his organizing principle.

“Winning the WBA junior welterweight championship was supposed to have solved all of my problems,” he wrote in his autobiography, Flight of the Hawk. “It brought on more problems than I had ever experienced. I became a monster. I was King Kong, Godzilla, and Loch Ness all rolled into one. Forget ‘Hawk Time.’ That was small peanuts. I was a mushroom-cloud-layin’, radiation leakin’, two-ton megaton atomic bomb ready for Ground Zero.”

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