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One Long Season In Hell: Michael Dokes 1958-2012

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There is no jet-set as low-rent as the prizefight jet-set and Dokes was soon off on one merrymaking junket after another, surrounded by the leeches that would eventually drain his blood and end up sucking at the marrow. "Once you get into that life and get that kind of money…" Dokes haltingly explained to The Akron Beacon Journal in 2010. "…last night we were talking about the people we were around—the toughest gangsters, the biggest entrepreneurs. It was probably more than we probably should have been biting on at the time, but I was just caught up in it." Read more from The Cruelest Sport