Browsing Tag Eddie Futch
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March 31, 1973: Ali vs Norton I
Few deny that Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all-time, perhaps even “The Greatest,” and a major part of the evidence for that claim ...
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Features 7
Glory Does Stay
“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.” — James ...
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Fight City Reviews 3
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, ...
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Lee Wylie 4
Joe Louis: Mechanical Wonder
“I could have struggled up once more, but when I get executed, people are going to have to pay more than twenty-five dollars a seat to watch it.” ...
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Boxiana 9
Jan. 28, 1974: Ali vs Frazier II
That first historic Ali vs Frazier confrontation in 1971, without question one of the biggest sports events of all-time, took a significant toll on both “Smokin’ Joe” and ...
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Lee Wylie 4
Muhammad Ali: The Fighter
A few days ago the boxing world marked the anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s birth and so we keep the festivities and remembrances going with an in-depth appreciation of ...
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Boxiana 5
Oct. 1, 1975: Ali vs Frazier III
Forty-five years later, one still hears the echoes, the reverberations of that final, epic struggle between two boxing legends. After all, it was more than a heavyweight championship ...
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Boxiana 1
Sept. 21, 1985: Holmes vs Spinks I
In March of 1985, heavyweight champion Larry Holmes scored a tenth round stoppage of undefeated contender David Bey and then immediately announced that he was done. As in, ...
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Boxiana 2
Aug. 29, 1992: Toney-McCallum II
Some would argue that James Toney’s first victory over Mike McCallum, which also happened to be his final defense of his middleweight title, is, all things considered, his greatest ...
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Lee Wylie 2
Eddie Futch: Deposing The Greatest
There’s never a bad time to pay tribute to an all-time great trainer and boxing genius, but with tomorrow being the anniversary of the birth of the one-and-only ...
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Columns 2
On Eddie Futch
Perhaps it’s just me but I get the feeling Eddie Futch , who was born 108 years ago tomorrow, wouldn’t be too comfortable in today’s boxing world. I ...
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Columns 0
Ken Norton: 1943-2013
A recent article on this website about one of Ken Norton’s finest performances referred to him as “a hard-luck fighter.” It discussed the fact that Norton had the ...
