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Boxing Legendary Boxing Promoter Butch Lewis Passed Away Saturday Morning

Butch Lewis, the colorful boxing promoter who worked with Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and Michael and Leon Spinks, has died. He was 65. Funeral home owner Sammy Congo of Congo Funeral Home in Wilmington, Del., says he received notification of Lewis' death on Saturday morning and was expected to meet family members on Sunday. He did not have information about how Lewis died. Lewis was best known in the ring for sporting tuxedos with no shirt and being involved in some of the sport's biggest fights.

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