Browsing Tag George Foreman
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Boxiana 2
Mercer vs Morrison
Most boxing fans are familiar with the ancient chestnut, “As the heavyweights go, so goes boxing,” and it would be difficult to argue that the old saw bears ...
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Columns 3
Ali vs Shavers: The Greatest’s Finest Hour
No matter how dismal the fight scene may be at a given time, fans can always cherish and take comfort from the sport’s glorious history. The past is ...
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Boxiana 0
Oct. 7, 1995: Lewis vs Morrison
On October 7, 1995, top heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Tommy Morrison clashed at the Atlantic City Convention Center for Morrison’s IBC belt, though the title was a minor ...
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Boxiana 5
Oct. 1, 1975: Ali vs Frazier III
More than four decades 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 ...
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Boxiana 10
Sept. 28, 1976: Ali vs Norton III
In a time of endless and constant media exposure, 24 hour “news” coverage, and 30 second attention spans, it is almost impossible to fully appreciate the larger-than-life fame ...
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Boxiana 14
Sept. 10, 1973: Ali vs Norton II
It had been years since Muhammad Ali worked with such intensity and purpose, years since he had forced his body to undergo the torture necessary to reach supreme ...
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Boxiana 1
Sept. 2, 1995: McCall vs Bruno
For the heavyweight division, the 1990’s were total chaos. A complete chronicle of that bizarre decade for the game’s big men reads like a season-long script for a ...
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Boxiana 1
Aug. 29, 1992: Toney vs McCallum
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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Fight City Reviews 2
Facing Ali
Casualties of a cruel sport. Broken spokes on boxing’s eternal wheel. Archetypes for the noble poor. Or, to cast such reductive generalizing aside, perhaps just men who made a choice. Facing Ali, ...
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Boxiana 4
July 18, 1951: Charles vs Walcott III
If James Braddock is “The Cinderella Man,” then what do we call Arnold Cream, aka Jersey Joe Walcott? Braddock’s story of perseverance in the face of seemingly insurmountable ...
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Boxiana 3
July 11, 1996: Bowe vs Golota I
Golota gets eleven stitches, his head smashed open with a two-way radio. His trainer, 74-year-old Lou Duva, leaves the ring on a stretcher and is taken to hospital. ...
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Boxiana 1
July 9, 1989: Rosario vs Jones
When we compare and rank boxers of the past, something all serious fight fans love to do, one of the key criteria is longevity. This has less to ...
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Boxiana 0
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 ...
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Boxiana 6
June 11, 1982: Holmes vs Cooney
It was boxing’s biggest night, but for all the wrong reasons. In terms of sheer popularity, exposure, and the money that goes with it, the 1980s has to ...
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June 9, 1978: Holmes vs Norton
While it might be going a bit far to classify Ken Norton as a “hard-luck fighter,” it’s difficult not to see him as such when one considers all ...
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The Top Twelve 4
Top 12 All-Time Greatest Victories
For the purposes of this list, a great victory is one which takes place against a great fighter when they are in their prime and no mitigating factors ...
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Boxiana 0
May 25, 1980: Cooney vs Young
“I’m going to win this fight, going to win it big. I’ve trained hard for this and I’ve got it all together. I hear this Cooney kid is ...
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Boxiana 0
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. ...
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Boxiana 13
May 20, 1985: Holmes vs Williams
Thirty-four years ago today a crime occurred. It went largely unnoticed outside the world of boxing, but that doesn’t change the fact that it happened. Or that nothing ...
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May 15, 1992: Moorer vs Cooper
Michael Moorer and Bert Cooper were at different stages of their careers when they clashed for the vacant, and rather dubious, WBO world title and gave fight fans ...
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Boxiana 6
April 19, 1991: Holyfield vs Foreman
When news came in 1987 that former heavyweight champion George Foreman, who had retired almost a decade before to become an evangelical pastor, intended to embark on a ...
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Fight City Reviews 1
McIlvanney On Boxing
A.J. Liebling will always be boxing’s literary standard bearer, his masterwork The Sweet Science certain to find appreciative fans through the generations. If there’s a top table of ...
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Boxiana 0
March 30, 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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The Top Twelve 12
Top 12 Most Significant Fights In Boxing History
There are big fights which all boxing fans want to see, and then there are the monumental clashes that attract attention from all corners and have a lasting ...
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Fight City Reviews 0
Ali: A Life
The latest biography of Muhammad Ali, surely the most written-about boxer in history, is also the longest, and will be among the best-selling and most-read. Jonathan Eig’s Ali: A ...
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Boxiana 7
March 26, 1974: Foreman vs Norton
On March 31, 1973, unheralded heavyweight contender Ken Norton outpointed Muhammad Ali to score a huge upset. Seven months later, Ali scored a close decision victory of his own ...
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Columns 0
Like It Or Not, The Throne Is Empty
A few months ago we witnessed one of the more memorable heavyweight battles of recent years as alphabet titleholder and top-two contender Deontay Wilder faced off against the last ...
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Boxiana 0
March 11, 1989: Holyfield vs Dokes
When Evander Holyfield and Michael Dokes clashed for the WBC Continental Americas Title back in 1989, the result was a battle which some later called the heavyweight fight of ...
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Boxiana 13
March 8, 1971: Ali vs Frazier I
Back in 2015, immediately following the announcement of a Floyd Mayweather vs Manny Pacquiao match finally being signed and sealed, excited boxing pundits began searching for comparisons. How ...
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Feb. 28, 1973: Napoles vs Lopez II
They call boxing the cruelest sport for a number of reasons, one of them being that no matter how talented or dedicated a boxer is, his success ultimately ...
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