Browsing Tag Thrilla in Manila

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    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 ...

    On August 8, 2019 / By
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    Jan. 16, 1982: Navarrete vs Choi

    For fight fans the world over, the city of Manila in the Philippines will always be reminiscent of the legendary third and final clash between Joe Frazier and ...

    On January 16, 2019 / By
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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
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    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 ...

    On October 1, 2018 / By
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    Hit The Road, Andre

    In November boxing got a rare treat: a showdown between two of the very best fighters in the sport, pound-for-pound. And while Kovalev vs Ward didn’t exactly remind ...

    On January 10, 2017 / By
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    “I Wish He Would Live Forever”

    Muhammad Ali was bigger than boxing and much more than a celebrity. He was a leader of social and cultural change, embodying characteristics which all of us aspire ...

    On June 9, 2016 / By
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