“He’s like a big elephant,” Gonzales said at the time. “He walks around, trots around, doesn’t know too much. He can’t get no better, and he smells like s—, man.”

Stevenson, Gonzales to fight with fists … and lawyers?
By Herb Zurkowsky, Postmedia News February 17, 2012

Adonis Stevenson (L) and Jesus Gonzales exchange words during the photo-op after the weigh-in at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Friday, February 17, 2012 for the main event of boxing card this Saturday night at the Bell Centre between Stevenson and Gonzales for the International Boxing Federation Intercontinental title.
Photograph by: Dave Sidaway , The Gazette

MONTREAL — Professional boxers are notoriously lousy actors.

They invariably yuk it up for the cameras and pretend to hate their opponents. And then, when the bout ends, they hug each other. It’s one of the best-known dichotomies of the sweet science.

Except this time.

Fukushima nuclear disaster

Japan’s nuclear evacuees denied Canadian refuge
By Tom Godfrey, QMI Agency

High levels of radiation around the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant and ongoing leaks of radioactive material have caused Japanese nationals to seek refuge in Canada.

TORONTO – A Japanese woman who claimed exposure to radiation from damaged nuclear reactors has been denied refugee status in Canada almost one year after Japan was rocked by an earthquake and tsunami that left more than 100,000 people homeless.

The woman’s identity has not been released by the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), since she’s seeking asylum in Canada. She is among several dozen Japanese nationals who filed refugee claims to stay in Canada following the disaster, and the decision in her case is one of the first to be reached by the IRB.

“The claimant feared risks of exposure to radiation,” an IRB member said in a ruling. “She was not convinced by the Japanese government’s assurances of safety from radiation.”