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Entries tagged with "Willie+Pep":

• Age Is Relative – May 16th, 2011

  
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• 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 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...
  
  

• 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..."
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• Chico Vejar: Quintessential 1950s – December 26th, 2011

  There is more to Chico Vejar than toughness; there always was nobility and great sense of dignity…
  
  

• Willie Pep vs. Sandy Saddler – January 22nd, 2012

  Hall-of-Famers Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler were two of the greatest featherweights in boxing history. Saddler was a freakishly tall 5'8½ " and fought out of Boston, Mass. Pep, at 5'5", was born Gugliermo Papaleo in Middletown, Connecticut. Their rivalry was the stuff of legend and they fought four times between Oct. 29, 1948 and Sept. 26, 1951. Each fighter was a master of his art, and each fighter's art was as different from the other as night is from day...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Return to Sender – February 7th, 2012

  
  
  

• 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...
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• Postcard From Panama: Duran’s Place – March 19th, 2012

  One hundred and nineteen of those battles and still here, still a pistol, and in great shape this GRAND CHAMPION DURAN…
  
  

• 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...