Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Best actress went to Faye Dunaway as the bitchy-pushy programming V.P. in Network; her loony anchorman co-star Peter Finch, who died last January, was named Best Actor. Rocky, Sylvester ("Sly") Stallone's uplift tale about the little-known heavyweight who could, won Best Picture...
...comment, Howard," mumbled No. 1 ranked Heavyweight Contender George Foreman to his sometime broadcasting colleague Howard Cosell after dropping a unanimous 12-round decision in San Juan, Puerto Rico, last week to 3-to-l underdog Jimmy Young. Young's cover-up tactics and counterpunching created more than another dent in the former champ's fragile ego. They put a crimp in the multimillion-dollar plans of Promoter Don King to get Foreman back in the ring for a rematch with Titleholder Muhammad Ali. After flirting with retirement following his victory over Ken Norton last fall, the aging...
...sport of boxing from 1966 up until just a short time ago. The name Ali and the word "boxing" were synonymous in most people's eyes. And rightfully so, since the lower weights were producing no one of great charisma, such as a Sugar Ray Robinson, and the heavyweight division, outside of Joe Frazier, simply had no one to offer. Boxing was Ali and Ali was boxing...
...more. The United States' performance in the Olympic Games, particularly in the lower-weights, has made the sport of boxing bigger than just the heavyweight division. Names like Seales, Leonard and Davis are almost as well known as their heavyweight counterparts. People are beginning to realize that the lower weights are no longer the realm of foreigners, especially Latin Americans...
...with the greatly increased interest in the lower-weights and the rise of serious heavyweight contenders, where does that leave...