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Entries tagged with "George+Chuvalo":

• Chuvalo’s Fight vs. Drugs – May 28th, 2011

  
  
  

• The Mexicans—It's in the Blood – June 10th, 2011

  Olivares, a true champion, always so accomodating and always so gracious at these Hall of Fame events, sits with a relaxed smile on his face...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• 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 Early Death of Sonny Liston – August 12th, 2011

  It's been said that only the good die young, which doesn’t do much to explain Sonny Liston. He was born dirt poor, could neither read nor write, but he was able to do things with his fists that proved useful. Before he became a boxer, he was an armed robber known as the "Yellow Shirt Bandit," but that was the only thing yellow about him. No stranger to jail, no stranger to the mob, Liston was eased into the pro game and won the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson in 1962. But whether it was in or out of the ring, Liston was one mean SOB, and made the bad old George Foreman, the bad old Mike Tyson, look like amateurs by comparison. After losing his title to Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) in 1964, Liston was no longer the malevolent force of nature everyone assumed. And when he was found dead in his bedroom in 1971, in the midst of negotiations for a fight with George Chuvalo, Liston's story required a rewrite…
  
  

• Muhammad Ali-George Chuvalo Documentary – May 8th, 2012

  They were two of the toughest men to walk the face of the earth. Muhammad Ali and George Chuvalo got it on twice, the first time on March 29, 1966 at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada, and the second time on May 1, 1972, at the Pacific Auditorium in Vancouver. Both men could dish out and receive punishment like their lives depended on it, and both men had demons, as well as each other, to contend with, as the documentary "The Last Round" makes clear...
  
  

• The Best I Ever Saw: Alan Kahn – September 28th, 2011

  Roy Jones hitting the bag side to side with one hand. Fantastic. Floyd hitting the bag one-handed while looking at the HBO camera? Oldest trick in the book…
  
  

• Jerry Quarry’s Greatest Hits – November 3rd, 2011

  We kept tuning into the next episode because we had to see whether he would finally put the pieces together and cross the finishing line...
  
  

• Ten-Count for Smokin’ Joe Frazier – November 7th, 2011

  Frazier described the land on his parents' farm as "white dirt, which is another way of saying it isn't worth a damn..."
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Moon Shots! Sonny and Jerry’s Black December – December 22nd, 2011

  It seemed entirely fitting that the stage was left to professional boxing to set off the last couple of explosions...
  
  

• Floyd Patterson vs. George Chuvalo – January 8th, 2012

  Heavyweights Floyd Patterson and George Chuvalo met on Feb 1. 1965 at Madison Square Garden. Patterson had lost the heavyweight title to Sonny Liston in 1962, in devastating fashion, but he did what fighters do, which is to fight. Chuvalo was never champion (if he were plying his trade today that might be another story) and he fought everyone who was anyone and always gave a good showing of himself. Floyd was 41-4 going in. Chuvalo was 29-8-2. But boxing records can be deceiving, as can the past, when there were great fights occurring with a frequency we can only dream about today...
  
  

• 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 Big Bombers: Shavers & Co. – April 2nd, 2012

  Like a big shark casting its shadow, you simply never knew what Shavers was going to do next. Would he simply bump you or take a big bite?
  
  

• A Literal and Literary Boxing Journeyman – April 4th, 2012

  “People who think they’d have nothing in common with someone like me,” says Bozic, “and then all of a sudden, I’m reciting Emily Dickenson…”
  
  

• Wild, Crazy, and Thoughtful – April 12th, 2012

  
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• George Chuvalo: A Better Head Than Most – May 15th, 2012

  It seemed that Chuvalo simply couldn’t function properly without the impetus of having his face turned into an abstract painting...
  
  

• 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…