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Entries tagged with "Ezzard+Charles":

• Greatest KOs in Boxing History – June 18th, 2011

  Everone loves a knockout. And what's not to love? When one man's fists connect with another man's head and he goes crashing to the canvas, everyone's pulse races a little faster. The knockout can not only change the direction of a fight. It can change the direction of a career, the direction of a life...
  
  

• The Stallone Act – July 6th, 2011

  There was no Chuck Zitoesque middleman doing the "hand me the boxing glove, I give it to MISTER Stallone, I hand it back" routine…
  
  

• Jack the Ripper’s Dead: Sonny Liston – September 27th, 2011

  There always has to be a boogieman to keep us on our toes and fire our humdrum lives with some dangerous excitement...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Rocky Marciano vs. Ezzard Charles II – December 21st, 2011

  Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano first fought former heavyweight champ Ezzard Charles on June 17, 1954 in Yankee Stadium. The first fight was competitive, but Marciano walked away with a UD after 15. It was however one of those fight everyone wanted to see again, so Marciano (46-0 going in) and Charles (83-11-1) fought a rematch three months later on Sept. 17, again in Yankee Stadium. Marciano-Charles II was a helluva fight. Charles was down twice, but had split Rocky's nose in half. It was touch and go, but it was a fight to the finish, and what a finish it was...
  
  

• Emile Griffith: The Natural – January 12th, 2012

  The death of Benny Kid Paret was a great tragedy, not only for those involved but for boxing as well...
  
  

• Jersey Joe Walcott vs. Ezzard Charles III – January 26th, 2012

  “I started out in life as Arnold Cream. I guess with a name like that I had to learn to fight at any early age.”—Jersey Joe Walcott Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles were great fighters in an era of great fighters. They ducked no one, evaded no challenge, and their individual talents were the stuff of legend. Walcott and Charles fought four times over a three-year period. They fought in June 1949, March 1951, July 1951, and June 1952. Their third fight on July 18, 1951, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh was for the heavyweight title Charles won by UD15 over Walcott four months earlier. Walcott was 69-5-1 going in. Charles was 69-5-1. If you like heavyweight fights that are action-packed grudge matches to their very core, Walcott-Charles III, The Ring magazine's Fight of the Year for 1951, is the fight for you...
  
  

• When Fans Go “Oooh and Aaah” – February 3rd, 2012

  Sometimes cuties are flashy or stylish, but more often than not, their calling card is reliance on a crafty persona…
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Sometimes a Great Notion: Billy Conn – March 7th, 2012

  When Billy hung ‘em up after 77 fights against some of the toughest guys on the block, that mischievous matinee idol face was still intact...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Old School – May 14th, 2012

  Old school was a behavior influenced by the mores and values of another era. If someone calls me a throwback, I kind of like it…