Browsing Tag Cassius Clay

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  Sonny Liston: 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 December 30, 2018 / By Eliott McCormick
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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, 2018 / 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 October 2, 2018 / By Michael Carbert
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  May 21, 1966: Ali vs Cooper II

  Looking back, it’s easy to forget that until the early 70s and his wars with Bonavena, Frazier, Norton and Foreman, many seriously questioned the toughness of Muhammad Ali. ...

  On May 21, 2018 / 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 May 12, 2018 / By Marko Sijan
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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 26, 2018 / 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 January 19, 2018 / By Douglas Cavanaugh
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  Top 12 Reasons Muhammad Ali Is Forever The Greatest

  Today is the anniversary of the birth of the amazing athlete who changed boxing forever, only the second such anniversary since his death in June of 2016. Muhammad ...

  On January 17, 2018 / By Michael Carbert