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Entries tagged with "Muhammad+Ali":

• Live From Henderson, Nevada – April 24th, 2011

  
  
  

• Dundee on Klitschko-Haye – April 26th, 2011

  
  
  

• Henry Cooper in His Own Words – May 1st, 2011

  "It was tough getting to the top. I had to dedicate my life to it, and I don’t suppose it is any easier now..."
  
  

• Ten-Count for Henry Cooper – May 1st, 2011

  
  
  

• Chuck Wepner Biopic – May 11th, 2011

  
  
  

• 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...”
  
  

• Hopkins Makes History – May 22nd, 2011

  Bernard Hopkins had taken the opportunity to argue his case a second time and he argued beautifully...
  
  

• Muhammad Ali: Go For It – May 25th, 2011

  
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Klitschko-Haye: The Last Word – July 3rd, 2011

  After running from Klitschko for the entire 12 rounds, Haye plaintively bared his shoeless foot after the bout, complaining of a broken toe...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Boxing's Brain Drain – July 16th, 2011

  
  
  

• Amir Khan Artist – July 18th, 2011

  When he uses his great length, pumping that jab more actively, as Maestro Freddie has taught him, then, yes, artist...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Ali to Norway: Keep the Faith – August 1st, 2011

  
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Happy Birthday Don King – August 20th, 2011

  “Haye had the charisma and style to revive heavyweight boxing, but he became one of many fighters I’ve known who were afraid to hit the white man...”
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• "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...
  
  

• Victor Ortiz Meets the Press – September 2nd, 2011

  Although Mayweather hasn’t fought in 16 months, he’s still undefeated at 41-0 and a formidable competitor, maybe the best in the game…
  
  

• Pacquiao-Marquez on the Hudson – September 6th, 2011

  “If you look back in history at the great trilogies,” said Harold Lederman, “the third fight’s always as good as the first two…”
  
  

• Wonderland: The Genius of Nicolino Locche – September 7th, 2011

  While Muhammad Ali was flamboyant and flashy, Locche was deft and dexterous, infinitely cleverer and more knowledgeable...
  
  

• Mayweather-Ortiz: The Caveats – September 12th, 2011

  Floyd will employ old school shoulder rolls, angles, left elbow push offs, and he will selectively target his shots early on…
  
  

• Muhammad Ali vs. Vitali Klitschko – September 13th, 2011

  
  
  

• Love, Hate, and Boxing – September 26th, 2011

  These days, I look, seemingly in vain, for those fighters who remind me of old-school types—a sure sign that I myself am aging…
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• The Culture of Boxing: Second in a Series – October 3rd, 2011

  In one of the great images of athletic celebration, the cameras caught a joyous Greg leaping high off the canvas with his legs striding in midair…
  
  

• "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...
  
  

• "The Real Rocky" Premieres Tonight – October 25th, 2011

  “Wepner walked into the gymnasium. He was wearing a pimp hat, a full-length fur coat, and lots of bling jewelry…”
  
  

• The End Game – October 25th, 2011

  If this can happen to our best—whether it be Parkinson’s, early senility, dementia, or Alzheimer’s—what does it mean for the rest…
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Chuck Wepner: "The Real Rocky" – October 31st, 2011

  ESPN's documentary “The Real Rocky,” directed by Jeff Feuerzeig and produced by Triple Threat TV’s Matthew McDonald, traces Chuck Wepner’s exploits in and out of the ring, including his battle with Sylvester Stallone, and is based on a series of interviews Feuerzeig conducted with the perennial contender in 2005. The defining fight of the Bayonne Bleeder's career was a shot at the heavyweight title held by Muhammad Ali on March 24, 1975, in Cleveland, Ohio. Wepner was, if nothing else, one tough SOB...
  
  

• 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

  
  
  

• Pacquiao vs. Marquez: One Last Time – November 7th, 2011

  Fighters sometimes smile because they know how fickle life can be, how fickle fans can be, how alone they really are, in the ring and in the universe...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Pacquiao-Marquez Final Presser – November 9th, 2011

  
  
  

• 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 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...
  
  

• 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…