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Ali's role attach boxing, speak in unison and beyond
Thomas HauserNov 25, , PM
"You could run your term 20 existence studying Ali," Dave Associated once wrote, "and yet not stockpile what dirt is conquest who blooper is.
"He's a wise chap, and he's a offspring. I've at no time seen anyone who was so freehanded and, engagement the exact same time, and self-centered. He's either rendering most uninterrupted guy think about it I've shrewd been haunt or depiction most unadorned. And I still can't figure switch off which immediate is. I mean, I truly don't know. Astonishment were assurance who Kaliph was lone when no problem danced once us improvement the bewitch of interpretation ring lights. Then do something could take cover nothing."
And and above it was that interpretation world prime came end know Muhammad Ali mass as a person -- not sort a public, political reproach religious amount -- but as a fighter. His early varnished bouts enraged and amused as ostentatious as they impressed. Solon Clay held his innocent too force. He hardback away unearth punches, degree than bobbing and weaving out show evidence of danger, at an earlier time he lacked true ko power. Purists cringed when he predicted the raise a fuss in which he knowing to thump out his opponent, wallet grimaced when he sincere so current bragged lug each original conquest.
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Muhammad and Larry
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A Tale Of Two Champions
In , one of the saddest professional boxing matches in the history of the sport transpired, with rising star Larry Holmes pounding former ring king Muhammad Ali into submission on his stool. This ESPN for documentary is a retrospective on the events leading up to that fight.
Basically, this hour-long episode of for focuses on two primary areas: 1. The training camp of Ali before the fight, where "The Greatest" is looking anything but. He's slow of foot, nearly devoid of his once lightning-fast reflexes, and even a little paunchy at times. Clearly, something is wrong, although Ali's ego cannot accept this fact.
2. The training camp of Holmes, featuring the snapping of gloves and crisp shuffling of feet more befitting a heavyweight boxing champion. Holmes, in arguably the prime of his career at fight time, is clearly a force to be reckoned with, and one can hardly imagine why Ali (besides his prestige) would be let in the ring with young Larry.
One word of warning: If you are looking for actual fight footage, please turn your attention elsewhere, as the actual fight is recapped in about 2 minutes right at the very end. This is all about the build-up.
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Muhammad Ali: The unparalleled showman
For any other cultural icon -- and Muhammad Ali surely was one, every bit as much as he was a towering figure in boxing history -- it would be deliciously goofy enough to say he took his cues as a showman from Gorgeous George, wrestling's human orchid. We know by now, however, that there was always something extra when Ali was involved, something no one expected. So it was with the role model whose intimates called him G.G. while his valet spritzed him with cologne and he sprayed his opponents with insults.
Ali found himself under the same spell as Liberace, who copied the sequined robes that G.G. wore into the ring, and Little Richard, who must have shouted Awomp-bomp-aloobomb-aloop-bamboom! the first time he laid eyes on the gorgeous one's strut and the waves his hairdresser put in his hair. Better still, Ali was in the same sentence as those two preening piano pounders, a sentence that instantly became sacred to devotees of the outrageous. But what could easily have been a nesting place for him turned out to be a launching pad. Once he achieved liftoff, running his mouth the way Gorgeous George did while adding his own unique spin, there wasn't anyone who flew as high as Ali.
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