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Title: A date with destiny
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Knudsen, Anne
Date Created and/or Issued: 1985
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: On Sept. 21, 1985, Larry Holmes, right, who is 48-0, puts his International Boxing Federation heavyweight title on the line against Michael Spinks, left. The two were in Los Angeles to promote their bout at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, where Holmes will try to equal Marciano's record and Spinks will try to become the first light heavyweight to dethrone a heavyweight champion in a title bout. Photo dated: September 5, 1985.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00052936
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Holmes, Larry.
CARL0000058547
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/20583
Subject: Holmes, Larry,--1949-
Spinks, Michael
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Boxing--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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