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Entries tagged with "Joe+Frazier":

• Foreman on Pascal-Hopkins II – May 17th, 2011

  A man of few words, someone who let his fists do the talking, Foreman was big, he was bad, and he gave people pause with his baleful stare...
  
  

• Write on the Money – May 18th, 2011

  “With each punch, the glove did something different, as if the fist and wrist within the glove were also speaking...”
  
  

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

  
  
  

• 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 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…
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Greatest Moments in the Ring – July 7th, 2011

  
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• 10 Greatest Upsets in Heavyweight History – April 10th, 2012

  There's nothing like an upset to make one believe. All the questionable decisions that cast doubt on the sport are rendered meaningless when an upset occurs. And when the upset is during a contest between world-class heavyweights, the satisfaction is that much greater. This sampling covers some of the greatest upsets among heavyweights in history and includes Foreman-Frazier, Norton-Ali, Rahman-Lewis, Ali-Foreman, Louis-Schmeling, Clay-Liston, Braddock-Baer, and Tyson-Douglas...
  
  

• Jerry Quarry: The Enemy Within – August 28th, 2011

  The feints were absent, the counterpunching was not sharp, and the punches were wild. Something was amiss…
  
  

• "Don King Unauthorized" Documentary – August 30th, 2011

  Don King is a national institution. A self-described "black Horagio Alger," his rags-to-riches, Cinderella story is the American Dream come to life. But if we pull back the curtain and look beyond the wild hair, smiling countenance, bespoke jean jackets, and flutterng flags, a darker picture emerges, a picture of a man for whom winning isn't the most important thing, it's the only thing...
  
  

• Ten-Count for Georgie Benton – September 19th, 2011

  
  
  

• Big George on Bernard Hopkins – October 15th, 2011

  
  
  

• "Champions Forever": Ali-Frazier-Foreman-Norton-Holmes – October 19th, 2011

  This 1989 documentary takes a good hard look at the last Golden Age of Heavyweights. It was an era when even the second and third tier heavyweights might be champions today, and this film focuses on the crème de la crème of boxing’s marquee division: Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Norton, and Larry Holmes...
  
  

• Bob Arum and the Descent of Boxing Trash Talk – October 28th, 2011

  One doesn’t need to be an economist to recognize that Mayweather’s departure from Top Rank has probably cost Arum tens of millions of dollars…
  
  

• Big Daddy: Should He Be Inducted into the Hall? – November 2nd, 2011

  Bowe slaughtered highly touted trash-talking Jorge Luis Gonzalez. He did this like a butcher works on fresh meat…
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Joe Frazier Deathly Ill – November 5th, 2011

  
  
  

• 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..."
  
  

• Joe Frazier Condolences – November 8th, 2011

  
  
  

• Pacquiao vs. Marquez: A Tapestry of Trilogies – November 8th, 2011

  It had everything. Post-war drama, a rubber match, the Chicago vs. New York big city ingredient, unabashed ethnic pride…
  
  

• Thrilla in Manila Documentary – May 19th, 2012

  
  
  

• Remembering Smokin' Joe Frazier – November 8th, 2011

  Robert Ecksel, Editor-in-Chief of Boxing.com, speaks with Rick Strom of TYT Sports about the recent passing of former heavyweight champion Smokin' Joe Frazier. They discuss Frazier's background and career, including his greatest fights, and examine his complex relationship to Muhammad Ali, in and and out of the ring, and what Frazier meant to boxing during the last golden age of the heavyweight division...
  
  

• Manny’s Legacy Minus Mayweather – November 10th, 2011

  Regardless of how Pacquiao-Mayweather ends (should the fight ever be made), the outcome would have little impact on Pacquiao’s overall legacy…
  
  

• Manny Steward on Pacquiao-Marquez III – November 12th, 2011

  Amid blinding strobes and deafening music, the Vegas equivalent of darkness and silence, I asked Steward about Pacquiao-Marquez…
  
  

• Communication Breakdown – November 14th, 2011

  
  
  

• What Are They Smokin'? – November 16th, 2011

  
  
  

• Father, Fighter, and Play – November 21st, 2011

  Cassidy’s gift at describing the emotions he felt watching his father fight is the same gift he brings to his playwriting...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Dave Anderson Gifts IBHOF – November 29th, 2011

  
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Steve Smoger: Master of an Art Form – December 25th, 2011

  Smoger, the real article, speaks for itself, and by action, for himself. There is no need to draw attention...
  
  

• Remembering Those Who Passed in 2011 – December 29th, 2011

  The sweet science lost some greats and near greats in 2011, and each of them will be missed. May the Lord grant them eternal comfort...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier I – January 6th, 2012

  The Fight of the Century was fought on March 8, 1971 at New York's Madison Square Garden between two of the greatest heavyweights in history. In one corner there was the reigning champion, Smokin' Joe Frazier (26-0, 23 KOs), from Philly via Beaufort, South Carolina. In the other corner was the challenger Muhammad Ali (31-0, 25 KOs), returning to active duty after a three and a half year suspension for defying Uncle Sam (“Ain’t no Vietcong ever called me nigger”). Nowadays fights are given catchy names and seldom if ever live up to the hype. The Fight of the Century was one of those fights that not only lived up to the hype, but in some ways even transcended the sport...
  
  

• When a Boxing Historian Struggled to Maintain His Interest – January 7th, 2012

  That kind of special "leave it all in the ring" style is now the exception and certainly not the rule...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Why Ali Has Never Gone Away – January 16th, 2012

  Muhammad Ali’s career is marked by undulations, great ups and downs, jarring defeats and comebacks...
  
  

• George Foreman vs. Jimmy Young – February 2nd, 2012

  George Foreman didn't stop fighting after the devastating loss of his WBC/WBA titles to Muhammad Ali in the "Rumble in the Jungle" in 1974. George took a year off before returning to the ring, then won five in a row, all by early stoppage, including the war to end all wars with Ron Lyle, and his demolition of Smokin' Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica, both in 1976. It looked like Foreman had returned to form. Then he fought Jimmy Young on March 17, 1977, at Roberto Clemente Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Foreman's record was a remarkable 45-1 at the time. Young was 20-5-2, a tough and able competitor, but the top-tier on the second rung. George was supposed to make short work of the Philly fighter. But as The Ring's Fight of the Year for 1977 indicates, not everything always goes as planned...
  
  

• Smokin' Joe Frazier: When the Smoke Clears – February 12th, 2012

  “If Joe was hurt by the Ali rivalry, I don’t think—unlike what other people have written or other films suggested—that Joe was bitter…”
  
  

• Last Man Standing – February 19th, 2012

  We must never forget that a boxing match is ultimately about determining who can impose his will on another by using only his wits and his fists…
  
  

• When Harry Met Ali (Documentary) – March 9th, 2012

  There are no shortage of documentaries on Muhammad Ali. Some are good, some are not so good, and some are better than most. The documentary "When Harry Met Ali" is better than most and is narrated by British boxing writer Harry Carpenter, who followed Ali from his earliest days to the end of his remarkable career. This film is beautifully done, a comprehensive montage featuring terrific fight footage and interviews, with commentary by some of The Greatest's opponents and pugilistic heirs...
  
  

• Manny Steward on Maravilla – March 18th, 2012

  
  
  

• 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…”
  
  

• Boxing’s Five Greatest Moments: 2000-2009 – April 6th, 2012

  It’s about the individual moments, indistinct passages of time where, as we’ll see, two minutes can seem like a second and a second can seem like two minutes…
  
  

• Loughran-Hopkins: “The Philadelphia Fighter” – April 23rd, 2012

  So here are the lives and careers of two Philadelphia fighters. In many ways the men are stunningly different and yet the same…
  
  

• The Compassionate Corner – April 30th, 2012

  Sometimes a fighter has an unwritten pact with his corner, that if he simply no longer has it—if it all suddenly disappears—he must be saved from himself…
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• 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...