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...talk eventually, for many hours and in many places. Anson found him "impossible to dislike. He's a warm, genuine human being who deserves better than to make his living by having his head knocked in." Anson at one point asked Frazier's manager, Yancey Durham, for permission to spar with the fighter. Informed that the last journalist to do so had been an ex-fighter who emerged from the ring with a broken leg, Anson contented himself with watching. A bigger disappointment was not getting a chance to ride on the back of Frazier's motorcycle...
...year-old childhood sweetheart, married her and moved into a ghetto apartment. He ballooned up to 235 Ibs., so he went to a neighborhood Police Athletic League gym to pare off some weight. There he came under the paternal eye of a sometime fight manager named Yancey Durham, who recalls that Joe looked just like any other fat boy. One thing, however, was different: "He had determination...
...Under Durham's tutelage, Joe had 40 amateur fights and lost only one, to a 300-lb. behemoth named Buster Mathis in the 1964 Olympic trials. When Mathis suffered an injury, Joe went to Tokyo in his stead and won the heavyweight Gold Medal?even though he had to fight through three rounds of his final match with a broken thumb. Returning home penniless and with a heavy cast on his hand, he was unable to work for six months and had to live off his wife's $60-a-week salary as a factory worker. In desperation, he took...
...wasn't. Ali-e-e-e was still very much around. No matter whom Frazier was boxing, Trainer Durham kept telling him, "That's Cassius out there you're fighting." Says Joe: "From the beginning, Clay has been the man. That's all I heard when I was coming up?Clay's this and Clay's that. When I came from the Olympics, he told me, 'Come on up, work hard and I'll make you rich.' You know what? I came up, I got rich and he got poor...
Mooradian also said that the Yankee Conference is considering moving its office from the University of Connecticut at Storrs to the University of New Hampshire in Durham, N.H.-only 20 miles from Samborski's home in York, Maine...