The losers proved to be the real winners in life
Tag: Boxing
Rocky Marciano vs Sugar Ray Robinson
Rocky Marciano retired undefeated while Sugar Ray went into a long decline
The 1960 Olympics were spectacular in more ways than one
Wilma Rudolph, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Peter Snell and Herb Elliott were the brightest stars in Rome
Floyd Patterson: the boxer who came back
Written off as a hopeless case, he brought a ruthless, coiled fury to the ring, taking back the world championship
How Gene Tunney brought down a boxing legend and an era
He beat Jack Dempsey twice to become heavyweight champion – and his staid personal style foreshadowed the end of the Roaring ’20s
Jack Dempsey and the birth of the Roaring ’20s
The boxer was a prime example of the ascension of celebrity, perhaps rivalled only by baseball’s Babe Ruth
America’s first ethnic working-class hero
An Irish-American Catholic, champion boxer John L. Sullivan rose to popularity from modest roots
Before Ali, there was Joe Louis
Where Ali was flamboyantly boastful, Louis was studiously modest and where Ali was outspokenly defiant, Louis was respectfully deferential
Ali a champion who sought to change the world
We should all be inspired by Muhammad Ali, a man who stood tall in the face of adversity, in and out of the boxing ring
Muhammad Ali loved those friendly Canadians
“I’ve never been treated so nice in my life (as in Canada)”