It was the first time, boxing officials said, that three American fighters from one city had qualified for the Summer Games.

After a subsequent meeting, however, boxing officials said Ayala had changed his mind and would compete.

Several fighters, boxing officials and organising bodies criticised the fight after it was announced.

"You're seeing a ghost," he told amateur boxing officials, "if you think I'm hanging around."

He holds up well as a citizen, a former boxing official, the father-trainer of a young contender.

The fight was reduced from six rounds to four for reasons boxing officials did not explain.

The boxing officials in attendance stated that neither man was trying.

He tried to keep a low profile, but the camp commandant had been a boxing official before the war and recognized Trollmann.

This creates an interesting moral dilemma for Tyson, boxing officials, and the public.

In one case, the police fitted a hotel suite with sophisticated video equipment to catch a bribe-taking boxing official.