Taj Mahal

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Real estate mogul Donald Trump received another last-minute reprieve from the Atlantic City Casino Control Commission Thursday, allowing him to continue operating his financially troubled Taj Mahal Hotel on the Boardwalk.But the smart money has it that Trump's days as a fight promoter competing with the owners of big Las Vegas hotels ended with last night's Evander Holyfield-George Foreman heavyweight championship match at Convention Hall.Trump had put Atlantic City on the boxing map with a number of multimillion-dollar matches in the past four years, including Mike Tyson's brief encounters with Michael Spinks and Carl Williams and Foreman's knockout of Gerry Cooney.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Real estate mogul Donald Trump received another last-minute reprieve from the Atlantic City Casino Control Commission Thursday, allowing him to continue operating his financially troubled Taj Mahal Hotel on the Boardwalk.But the smart money has it that Trump's days as a fight promoter competing with the owners of big Las Vegas hotels ended with last night's Evander Holyfield-George Foreman heavyweight championship match at Convention Hall.Trump had put Atlantic City on the boxing map with a number of multimillion-dollar matches in the past four years, including Mike Tyson's brief encounters with Michael Spinks and Carl Williams and Foreman's knockout of Gerry Cooney.

News from the Cauliflower Patch: Ron Essett, the super middleweight fighting out of Baltimore, scored a TKO victory over Jimmy Shavers in Madrid in his last outing and is readying for a tuneup bout against Sylvester White in Paris next month.Essett (25-3) is top ranked by the WBC and gets a mandatory shot at the organization's 168-pound title against the winner of the Mauro Galvano (champion) and Juan Carlos Jimenez title go May 1 in Italy.* Former heavyweight champ Ken Norton says George Foreman is going to beat Evander Holyfield April 19 for the simple reason, "George punches harder than anyone in boxing.