Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Weak at Heavyweight...
...said he is counting on solid wins from Carl Biello (134) and Dan Blakinger (118). Captain Richie Starr (190) may trade bouts with heavyweight Carl Culig, Lee added, "because Starr will be a better match for Springfield's heavy...
...been billed as the "Sunshine Showdown." But the heavyweight title bout between Champion Joe Frazier, 29, and Challenger George Foreman, 24, in Jamaica last week was more like a midnight mugging. In front of 36,000 fans at a stadium in Kingston, Foreman managed one of the swiftest and most savage upsets in heavyweight history...
That fight, so-called "The Fight of the Century," was supposed to settle the issue once and for all. Joe Frazier saw it as a chance to prove in the ring that the title was his. For three years, he had held the heavyweight crown without being able to echo John L. Sullivan's famous champion's boast: "My name is John L. Sullivan and I can beat any bastard alive...
That Demon, as it happens, took the form of George Foreman last week in Kingston. Until this fight, Foreman was best known as the boxer who waved a miniature U.F. Flag after he won the heavyweight gold medal at the Olympics in Mexico City, Coming soon after the black gloved salute given by John Carlos and Tommy Smith during the playing of the national anthem in an earlier awards ceremony, Foreman's gesture received much praise from those troubled by the "black power" movement in sports. They interpreted Foreman's flag as a sterling sign of patriotism and a rebuke...