Browsing Tag Cassius Clay

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  Top 12 Reasons Why Ali Is Forever The Greatest

  On this day four years ago the world said a final farewell to a legend, a man of enormous social impact, the champion everyone called “The Greatest,” the ...

  On June 10, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  May 25, 1965: Ali vs Liston II

  I wrote about this famous and most scandalous of duels for an earlier post on this site, our list of the most controversial fights in boxing history. I ...

  On May 25, 2020 / By Robert Portis
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  May 21, 1966: Ali vs Cooper II

  Looking back, it’s easy to forget that until the early 1970s and his wars with Bonavena, Frazier, Norton and Foreman, many seriously questioned the toughness of Muhammad Ali. ...

  On May 21, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  The Mysterious Champion

  Few champions have ever inspired as much public ambivalence, mistrust, and scorn as Sonny Liston. The frequently violent events of a life spent underneath the bright lights of ...

  On May 9, 2020 / By Eliott McCormick
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  March 13, 1963: Clay vs Jones

  No matter how impressive the amateur credentials, or how good they look in the gym, you can never know what a prospect is made of before they are ...

  On March 13, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  Feb. 25, 1964: Clay vs Liston I

  An earthquake. The ground collapsing beneath one’s feet. Everything around you that is established and familiar giving way to things new and strange and frightening. We’re only human ...

  On February 25, 2020 / By Michael Carbert
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  The Blood Feud

  HBO’s 2008 film Thrilla In Manila is a sports documentary with an agenda; not necessarily a bad thing, but when a bias obscures and twists the truth, as happens here, ...

  On December 28, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  Requiem For A Heavyweight

  In its visual style and heady narrative, Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) resembles few other films of its genre and ranks among the greatest boxing movies of all ...

  On November 20, 2019 / By Marko Sijan
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  Oct. 26, 1970: Ali vs Quarry I

  Following his successful defense of the heavyweight championship against Zora Folley in March of 1967, Muhammad Ali’s career soon came to a grinding halt. The following month he ...

  On October 26, 2019 / By Michael Carbert
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  Billy Conn: Risk vs Reward

  “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”      — Soren Kierkegaard Over the decades we have been told time ...

  On June 19, 2019 / By Douglas Cavanaugh
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  The Fight City Podcast No. 15

  Time for another edition of The Fight City podcast, hosted by Alden Chodash who this week is joined by site editor Michael Carbert. Strap in, as Alden breaks down the chaos at ...

  On February 26, 2019 / By Alden Chodash