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Entries tagged with "Archie+Moore":

• Age Is Relative – May 16th, 2011

  
  
  

• Hopkins Gets in the Last Word – May 21st, 2011

  
  
  

• The Long Weekend – June 30th, 2011

  The reason I have the boxing bug this weekend is that I think we are finally going to get some heavyweight fireworks…
  
  

• Lions of Winter No. 1: Marvin “The Weasel” Elkind – July 11th, 2011

  "The Weasel" has a list of backseat patrons that have included Ali, Frazier, Dempsey, Louis, Chuvalo, Liston, Marciano, Mancini, Moore, and Pryor…
  
  

• The Writer vs. The Fighter – August 10th, 2011

  Moore was light heavyweight champ from 1952-1962 and a cunning ring presence. His record at the time of Plimpton’s challenge was 171-22-9 (123 KOs)…
  
  

• Naming Names in the Fight Game – August 23rd, 2011

  When people say “sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never harm me,” they could not be more wrong…
  
  

• Why Old Gold Beats New Glitter – September 20th, 2011

  Keeping the faith in what we have today becomes ever tougher when so many of boxing’s wounds are cynically and greedily self-inflicted...
  
  

• Diamond Dukes: Baseball’s Legendary Scrappers – October 5th, 2011

  Billy Martin loved a scrap and had a winning record in diamond duking, but he didn't regret opting for a baseball career over boxing...
  
  

• B-Hop: X Marks the Spot – October 10th, 2011

  Hopkins wants everyone to remember that “Boxing is not who he is. Boxing is what he did, but boxing is not who he is…”
  
  

• Jack Dempsey: True Greatness – October 26th, 2011

  A fight to Dempsey was a struggle to the death. That is how he saw it. That was the kind of special fire that burned in his blood...
  
  

• Manny Pacquiao? Calm Down, Dear! – November 10th, 2011

  Lord, how we need him. Take away Manny and our battered old sport would be depressingly lacking in vintage talent...
  
  

• Rock Solid: Magnificent Marciano – November 27th, 2011

  Now to the big question: How good a heavyweight puncher was Rocky Marciano? The simple answer is that he was one of the true elite...
  
  

• All I Want for Christmas...Floyd, Tattoos, Manny – December 7th, 2011

  Santa I would ask you to consider an Immaculate Conception, that being the idea of finally having Manny Pacquiao fight Floyd Mayweather…
  
  

• Roy Jones: Going Down the Highway – December 19th, 2011

  It is hard, if you have any ounce of humanity, to watch a human being, like or dislike, disintegrating in the public domain…
  
  

• George Plimpton Awarded the Liebling – January 5th, 2012

  Prima donnas are great in grand opera, but not so grand when it comes to a great sport like boxing…
  
  

• IBRO: History in the Making – January 17th, 2012

  
  
  

• Canadian Boxing—What Resurgence? – January 27th, 2012

  Way up in the rafters, you can hear conversations about Durelle, Chuvalo, the Hiltons, Gatti, Pep, Gray, Melo, and so many others…
  
  

• The Journey of the African-American Boxer – February 8th, 2012

  Decades before baseball admitted Jackie Robinson into its lily white ranks, boxing was making strides to give African-American fighters a fair shake. But then as now, racial overtones influenced who fought who. Icons like John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey, even Jack Johnson, drew the color line when it came to fighting their black brothers. Part of it was cultural. Part of it was habit. Part of it was fear of losing to the better man...
  
  

• Roger, Floyd, and Sugar Ray Robinson – March 14th, 2012

  Roger Mayweather the boxing historian should have stopped while he was ahead. But stopping while he’s ahead is not Roger’s style…
  
  

• Archie Moore vs. Yvon Durelle – March 18th, 2012

  The great Archie Moore, aka the Old Mongoose, met "The Fighting Fisherman" Yvon Durelle on Dec. 10, 1958, at the Forum in Montreal, Canada. Moore was 173-21-9 going in, Durelle was 78-19-2, and they were fighting for the World Light Heavyweight Title. After it was over, Durelle said, "I've fought smart men before, but never anyone as smart as Archie Moore..."
  
  

• Johansson vs. Patterson: “The Hammer of Thor” – March 20th, 2012

  "Ingemar looks good physically…so does Errol Flynn—and Errol couldn’t fight his way out of a roomful of gorgeous blondes...”
  
  

• The Vintage Years of Ezzard Charles – March 22nd, 2012

  The young Cobra beat many an illustrious opponent with his precise and educated punching, yet Lady Luck seemed to bite him back just as often...
  
  

• The Executioner's Song of Songs – April 24th, 2012

  No one had an answer to Hopkins’ hypothetical questions, as least an answer they were willing to share, so he continued talking…
  
  

• A Freak of Nature – April 25th, 2012

  The old man got just enough eye on the young buck to squeeze off one last great shot…
  
  

• Mushy Callahan: “Trainer to the Stars” – April 29th, 2012

  You have to hand it to Mushy Callahan. He parlayed a mediocre career into a championship ride up on the silver screen…
  
  

• Runaway Train: The Prime George Foreman – May 9th, 2012

  Those opponents who saw any light at the end of the tunnel were usually staring at Foreman’s oncoming train...