Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realize it. That's technique. ON INFLUENCES: I think I learned to act from people like James Cagney and Paul Muni. And I'm sure I learned more from Bette Davis than anyone. She has enormous presence, a sense of surprise. She sets you up like a great boxer and BAM! she gives you something else. She does have a certain consistent style, but when you examine her work you find enormous variety of color and intelligence...
...would be difficult to exclude Joe Frazier, with the $750,000 he'll have after taxes and with his championship belt, from the winner's circle. Yet, despite the substantiality of these credentials, Joe Frazier did not win the championship of the world. He out-pointed a boxer, even dropped him for a four-count in the fifteenth, and walked out of the ring with a sense of personal satisfaction from his highly personal victory. But as for the championship of the world, Frazier never had a chance. Bundini Brown, Ali's assistant trainer and confidant, has said, "The world...
...Molineaux fought against the prime "black bucks" from other plantations while the masters wagered high stakes on the outcome. After he had beaten all comers and therefore was no longer of use to his master, Molineaux was given his freedom. He moved to New York and became the premier boxer on the Waterfront. Exhausting American competition, Molineaux then went to England to take on the English champion, Tom Cribb. Molineaux battered the white man for 23 rounds. Cribb's handlers saw that he was unable to continue, but instead of throwing in the towel, went to the referee charging that...
...goes, Farneti is a pretty good boxer, he has the athletic ability, strength, and speed to take anybody. But I promise you he won't be able to take any liberties with Bob O'Neal. I wouldn't sell O'Neal short, he has some kind of courage...
That's not to say that Ali cannot be beat, although I sincerely believe that he cannot. Frazier is the best boxer he has ever faced, but Frazier is ugly. Whatever the outcome, Clay will dominate the fight; he will dance, duck, strike, and dance again. He may bleed and he may fall, but Frazier will never dance. Some say, speaking of their styles, that this is a battle between the beauty and the beast. That's false; there can be no battle because Ali's beauty is incontestable. Frazier has no style nor grace nor beauty. As they...