Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After several days of sight-seeing and bad food, the Harvard heavyweight crew placed third in a field of six in the Nile Festival Regatta at Cairo, Egypt, on December...
Ironically, Avildsen has intentionally chosen this bigger-than-life storyline to test the reality of the dream. What heavyweight champion could, like the film's smooth-talking Apollo Creed, choose his own challenger for a staged New Year's Day bicentennial fight? And who would believe that even the media-mad Creed would bill the fight as the symbol of American opportunity because it pits a certain-to-lose unknown white challenger against a virtually undefeatable black...
...followed by Bill Mulvihill, George Baker, Tom Bixby, Jim Corcoran, Jon Franklin and Captain Jim Strathmeyer piled up a 33-0 margin against hapless Georgia Tech. Corcoran pretzled his man with a cradle to score a second round pin. The Crimson ended up swamping the Yellowjackets 39-3 after heavyweight Kip Smith flattened...
Captain Jim Strathmeyer battled his opponent to a tie, and then Sal D'agostino (190 lbs.) defeated his opposite, 8-4. Kip Smith (UNL) finished the match by pinning the Terrier heavyweight...
...only about his own children, but also about the children of the men he defeated, and the anguish it brought him to see the pained expression on their faces at ringside as he was beating their fathers' faces in. "Children are a special love in the life of a heavyweight champion. They have a way of making him know what love is." Ali also allows his first wife to include her story as to why their marriage broke up. The Ali we get from her narrative is an often immature, single-minded, tyrannical husband...