Reading Time: 4 minutes The losers proved to be the real winners in life
Tag: Boxing
Rocky Marciano vs Sugar Ray Robinson
Reading Time: 4 minutes Rocky Marciano retired undefeated while Sugar Ray went into a long decline
The 1960 Olympics were spectacular in more ways than one
Reading Time: 3 minutes Wilma Rudolph, Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali), Peter Snell and Herb Elliott were the brightest stars in Rome
Floyd Patterson: the boxer who came back
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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
Reading Time: 4 minutes 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
Reading Time: 3 minutes An Irish-American Catholic, champion boxer John L. Sullivan rose to popularity from modest roots
Before Ali, there was Joe Louis
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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
Reading Time: 3 minutes 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
Reading Time: 3 minutes “I’ve never been treated so nice in my life (as in Canada)”