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• Don King: Only in America – February 19th, 2012

  When HBO first broadcast Don King: Only in America in 1997, Don King was not pleased. A serio-comic dramatization of the life of the wild-haired promoter based on the book of the same name by thorn-in-the-side Jack Newfield, the film starred Ving Rhames as King, Vondie Curtis-Hall as Lloyd…
  
  

• Roberto Duran vs. Iran Barkley – February 15th, 2012

  There was only one Roberto Duran. But come to think of it, there was only one Iran Barkley as well. Duran, aka Manos de Piedra (Hands of Stone), met Barkley, aka The Blade, on Feb. 24, 1989, at the Atlantic City Convention Center for Barkley’s WBC middleweight title. Six months earlier The Blade…
  
  

• 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…
  
  

• 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…