Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heavyweight...
Craig Beling, a starting linebacker on the football team, inherits the heavyweight spot. Beling was good enough to start last year, but gave way to Kip Smith's experience. Lee expects him to be one of New England's finest heavyweights...
...late '50s, however, Plimpton's friends talked him into boxing three rounds with the light-heavyweight champion of the world, Archie Moore. The incident forms the first part of Plimpton's newest book, a meander through various and sundry settings which Plimpton manages to connect to boxing, sometimes by the thinnest of threads. In Shadow Box Plimpton displays the hallmark of the true raconteur: he rambles constantly but never bores...
Although the Moore fight is Plimpton's feat of participatory journalism for the book, it is mainly preoccupied with Muhammad Ali, from his defeat of Sonny Liston in Miami in 1964 when Plimpton first met him, to his successful regaining of the heavyweight title against George Foreman in Zaire...
From the gallery, Ali cheered for Young, but not out of brotherly love for the Philadelphia heavyweight. The champ wants no part of the 32-year-old Norton. Ali is haunted by his broken jaw at the hands of Norton and remembers the two disputed decisions over the challenger...