All posts tagged "muhammad ali"
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WorldwideHappy Birthday, Chuck Wepner
As hard as it is to believe, former heavyweight contender Chuck Wepner, who challenged Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title in 1975 and became the prototype...
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Showboaters Include Cassius Clay, Ray Leonard, Roy Jones, Naseem Hamed and Ben Whittaker
It was April 2002 and through 11 rounds, Marco Antonio Barrera had been dominating “Prince” Naseem Hamed. It wasn’t so much that Barrera was winning –...
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Who Was Tommy Ryan, Really?
Xavier Eboli is standing at the edge of Greenwood Lake in New Jersey. It's December, so the lake is quiet and empty. The water ripples gently...
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WorldwideMonroe Brooks Remembered For Heart, Not Anemic At All
Boxing in Sacramento was on life-support in the early 1970s, with no main event fighter enough of an attraction for promoter Babe Griffin to confidently finance...
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Bobby Cassidy Sr Salute
I came across this over the weekend, my father's first boxing license. He was 18 years old, really just a baby-faced kid. Looking at that photo,...
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NYF Prospect Watch: Demontaze Duncan, from Louisville
Demontaze Duncan would like to be mentioned with the big dogs of Louisville, Kentucky boxing. It’s the hometown of some of the greatest fighters in the...
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My Dad, the Fighter
For the first thirteen years of my life, I didn’t have a dad. My biological was out of the picture before I was born. He punched...
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Usyk vs. Dubois and 5 Biggest Heavyweight Upsets Ever
Usyk vs Dubois is nearly upon us. Daniel Dubois takes on unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on August 26 in Wroclaw, Poland. If the UK heavyweight...
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WorldwideNYF ARCHIVAL HIT: Remember the Last Fight For Muhammad Ali?
The public’s thirst for knowledge and information about Muhammad Ali has been a constant for more than 50 years. It wouldn't vanish now after The Greatest’s...
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NYF Archival Hit: “Facing Ali: 15 Fighters / 15 Stories”
By the turn of the century, Stephen Brunt was a well-established, well-regarded sports columnist with a loyal readership at The Globe and Mail, a newspaper he...
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NYF Archives Hit: Thomas Hauser Question and Answer
It may seem that Thomas Hauser has always been consumed with boxing, every hour of every day. That’s not the reality, though. Really. In a wide-ranging...
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WorldwideGeorge Foreman Movie, Portrait of Boxer, Preacher, Entrepreneur, Role Model, in Theaters Friday
The George Foreman movie hits theaters on Friday, April 28. It is a bit surprising, maybe, that a Foreman bio-pic hadn’t been done before now. After...
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Hank Kaplan’s Million Dollar Story
Across my lustre-free career, the big ones that got away have outnumbered by four to one the reasonable-sized ones that I barely managed to reel in....
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Biaggio Ali Walsh Makes His PFL Debut On Nov 25th
At one point in the era of combat sports, UFC was the only game in town, but with the rise of Bellator and now the Professional...
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Shields vs. Marshall Postponement Is Nothing New In Boxing
This was to be a historic weekend for women’s boxing, with the undisputed middleweight championship between Claressa Shields and amateur conqueror Savannah Marshall on tap for...
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George Foreman Salutes Earnie Shavers, Mulls the Shrinking Circle
Earnie Shaver, a man who possessed fists that could and did do pronounced damage to the chins of men who summoned the courage to face him...
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Earnie Shavers: Born At The Wrong Time
In the mid-nineties, I had the good fortune to meet Muhammad Ali during a book signing at a Barnes & Noble, where I worked at for...
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Nico Ali Walsh Hopes to Break Ali Curse in San Diego
Boxing great Muhammad Ali’s shocking loss to Ken Norton in 1973 is pictured on the wall among the notable historical events at Pechanga Arena San Diego....
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In Case Anyone Is Wondering, Novak Djokovic Is No Muhammad Ali
It’s no profound statement to say that this modern life is full of way too much outrage about the wrong things. I would largely lay blame...
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Tim Tszyu Leaves Terrell Gausha Thunderstruck in US Debut
Just two minutes into his much anticipated American debut, the air went out of The Armony in Minnesota when Terrell Gausha of Cleveland dropped Tim Tszyu...
Where, When To Watch Beterbiev vs Bivol Saturday
Weekend Boxing Roundup: Nick Ball, Janibek Alimkhanuly Defend Titles
Middleweight Division Demise: Alimkhanuly vs Mikhailovich
And The New: Mikaela Mayer Defeats Sandy Ryan
Ryan vs Mayer Settle Their Spat In The Ring Friday at MSG
Daniel Dubois Delivers Shocking Beatdown Of Anthony Joshua
Friday Night Fights: Jaime Munguia Returns Against Erik Banzinyan, ESPN
Friday Recap: Jaime Munguia Body Blasts Take Down Erik Bazinyan In Ten
Riyadh Season Undercard: Hamzah Sheeraz Steals The Show
