Word: frazier
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...only did he take the belt from Liston, he regained his championship by defeating George Foreman in Zaire despite an earlier 3 1/2-year absence from the ring. In Manila in 1975, he and the magnificently noble Joe Frazier fought the greatest heavyweight fight of all time, 14 rounds of explosive leather, pure will and muscle until Frazier's eyes swelled closed and he could not meet the bell...
...name Herblock, he made a sport of razing leading political figures, and in 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton awarded him the Medal of Freedom?America's highest civilian honor. DIED. EDDIE FUTCH, 90, a boxing Hall of Famer who trained 20 world champions, including Larry Holmes, Joe Frazier, Riddick Bowe, Michael Spinks and Trevor Berbick; in Las Vegas. Fighting legend and former Golden Gloves lightweight champion, Futch won attention when he threw in the towel for Smokin' Joe in the 1975 "Thrilla' in Manila" bout against Muhammad Ali. DIED. ALEXANDRE BYIDI-AWALA, 69, one of Africa's best-known authors...
...least boxing is consistent. The men's version is fraught with sleaze, and--hey! so is the women's. LAILA ALI, 23, scored a majority decision over JACQUI FRAZIER-LYDE, 39, last Friday night in Verona, N.Y., in what was billed as the next chapter in the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier feud but was actually a fight between two women who are very bad at boxing. True, both fighters came in undefeated: Ali had crushed 48-year-old grandmother Marjorie Jones; Frazier-Lyde had whupped a 19-year-old who turned tail when she saw Frazier charging. The fighters exchanged...
...fate has it in for us. But even if fate were to relent, what would it matter? I’ve read about the championship teams of the early 1970s, the Knicks of Willis Reed, Walt Frazier and Dave DeBusschere. My mom has told me about how all of New York fell in love with them...
Dartmouth carried its momentum into the second period of the game, with junior Jen Newitt scoring at 28:54. Fellow junior Amy Frazier added to the Big Green's lead just 20 seconds later with a tally off of a pass from freshman Lana Smith. Newitt added another tally at 23:36 to give Dartmouth a 6-2 advantage...