SUMMER GAMES SPOTLIGHT : BARCELONA ’92 OLYMPICS : THEY WANT TROUBLE ONLY IN THE RING

Olympic boxing usually serves as an auction house for professional promoters, who turn out in droves to outbid one another for the best talent.

But this year, only Lou and Dan Duva and their ace bird-dog and money man, Shelly Finkel, seem to be actively pursuing fighters, and even they are doing it in low gear. Finkel said he and promoter Dan Duva are interested in only four fighters: lightweight Oscar De La Hoya, light-middleweight Raul Marquez, light-heavyweight Montell Griffin and super-heavyweight Larry Donald.

“I’m looking for the kids who are the least amount of headaches,” Finkel said. “Lou Duva (the 70-year-old trainer) is going nuts, looking at Russians and Cubans and Bulgarians. He wants to sign everybody. Hey, I’m 48 years old, I had a heart attack six years ago, I don’t need it. So we miss a fighter who’s great. Big deal.”

This a daily roundup of Olympic-related items from reporters in Barcelona from the Los Angeles Times, Newsday and Baltimore Sun, all Times-Mirror newspapers.