Browsing Tag The Greatest

  • Fight City Reviews 1

    When We Were Kings

    With the death earlier this month of filmmaker Leon Gast, many fight fans are fondly recalling his most celebrated creation, a much-loved documentary which somehow seems as fresh ...

    On March 30, 2021 / By
  • Boxiana 6

    Feb. 25, 1964: Clay vs Liston I

    An earthquake. The ground collapsing beneath one’s feet. All that is established and familiar giving way to things new and strange and frightening. We’re only human so don’t ...

    On February 25, 2021 / By
  • 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, ...

    On January 27, 2021 / By
  • 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 ...

    On January 20, 2021 / By
  • 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 ...

    On January 18, 2021 / By
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    Top 12 Reasons Why Muhammad Ali Is The Greatest

    Today is the anniversary of the birth of the amazing athlete who changed boxing forever and, as we must each year, we take time to celebrate his life ...

    On January 17, 2021 / By
  • Lee Wylie 1

    ALI ’66

    After he had won the heavyweight championship of the world a record third time and announced his retirement (which proved a hiatus lasting little more than a year), ...

    On November 14, 2020 / By
  • 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 ...

    On October 1, 2020 / By
  • Boxiana 15

    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 ...

    On September 10, 2020 / By
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    Fear And Loathing In Zaire

    Hunter S. Thompson is undoubtedly an icon of the “counter-culture” movement. He was also undoubtedly a miserable failure as a boxing writer. A motorcycle-racing, gun-loving, Nixon-hating, booze-swilling, narcotic-ingesting ...

    On July 9, 2020 / By
  • Boxiana 0

    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
  • Lee Wylie 9

    Ali vs Foreman: Busting The Myth

    Ever since Muhammad Ali’s stunning 1974 triumph in Zaire, a simplistic yet popular myth has persisted, that being the so-called “Rope-a-Dope” strategy. In the decades since that great ...

    On October 31, 2018 / By
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