But then again, one never knows the twists and turns that boxing can take.
The twists and turns in the rivalry have an off-the-map feel to them, and anything seems possible.
For years, the twists and turns of the case have drawn international attention.
To illustrate the twists and turns on the way to finding and not finding value, let me recount a recent real-life example.
Now part of this, as has been usual recently, relates to the twists and turns of the fiscal cliff story.
Despite the twists and turns, Sybrina Fulton, Martin's mother, has said that she still has faith in authorities investigating her son's case.
That whatever the twists and turns, the taxman does eventually catch up?
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His story started back in 2002 and the media have, periodically, followed the twists and turns of his legal battles (see graph, below).
Given all the twists and turns of the past few years, forgive those in Sacramento if they are left guessing about the outcome.
Navigating the twists and turns of financing solar energy is complex.
The particles had to be small enough to navigate the twists and turns through the mouth, throat and trachea but not so small that they would be easily exhaled.
But it's in the twists and turns of the previous five years, and the pitting of wits between the rival offices that makes the play edge-of-the-seat entertaining.
Since the book is shortish and the twists and turns frequent, the narrative is sometimes too quick for the comfort of readers who did not live through its times.
Readers who did not spend the last 20 years following the twists and turns of Polish politics will need to concentrate hard to grasp who knifed whom, when and why.
It reveals the intense strain on family and community and the twists and turns of Arthur Scargill's union, Margaret Thatcher's government and a police force in conflict with the miners.
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It also helped to undermine Mr Assad's reputation as an Arab nationalist, as the twists and turns of the conflict pitted him against both Lebanon's pan-Arabists and the Palestinian guerrillas along Israel's northern border.
And you could not ask for somebody better in the foxhole with you during all the twists and turns of my candidacy and then the incredible challenges that we faced over the last two years.
He could not have known the twists and turns that lay ahead of him and his country in that war, or the road that he would travel over nearly five decades of service to his country.
Market timing is for the birds, so while you constantly try to call the twists and turns, you only ever change your position if something obvious and awful appears on the horizon such as the credit crunch.
It appears to be impossible to foresee all the twists and turns that force majeure or the acts of God may take, and they invariably turn out the disadvantage of the party to the contract whose function is to pay the money.
The twists and turns in the Italian government's attempt to sell its 49.9% stake in Alitalia has become a hot political issue, and has been a thorn in the side of Romano Prodi, who stepped down as prime minister in January.
The New York Times coverage has already been able to piece together a fascinating study of the twists and turns of US policy towards Iran and how this relates to Saudi-China relations - guaranteed oil deliveries were offered if Beijing cut its links with Tehran - and the US-Russia debate on missile defence.
And that base of fanatics cannot get enough of the latest twists and turns in the Apple story.
The problem with all this media hijacking goes beyond the strange twists and turns along the way.
In less rarefied markets, the response of prices to the recent twists and turns in the economic outlook has been far milder.
Here's an overview of the new twists and turns coming this fall.
The logic of the law twists and turns in mysterious ways.
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For players, the distinctive sound of jazz has derived not from acquiring a conventional classical technique on an instrument, but from emulating the spontaneous twists and turns of an impassioned voice.
The wing-beats of the Dove - said to be the biggest sale of weapons to anyone, by anyone, ever - have been troubling successive British governments for years now but sadly I don't have the time to guide you around all the giddy twists and turns of its circumlocution.
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