Word: liston
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like a good dramatist, Remnick centers his whole story on one amazing night when Ali proved his claims, cashed in his chips and changed his identity for good. Up until his epic first fight with Sonny Liston in 1964, Clay and his chatter had been just a good joke. Suddenly he was the heavyweight champion of the world, a position that, like Queen of England and Archbishop of Canterbury, carried certain moral responsibilities. So was Clay planning to be yet another credit to his race, like Joe Louis and Floyd Patterson, or was he going to be the other kind...
...prop for the farce, of course, was an overrated bum named Sonny Liston. Somehow he had persuaded quite a few people that he would button the lip of the twinkle-toed loudmouth who took his title away in Miami last year...
...event of all time," and while it may not have been that, it was a classic rematch between the good Holyfield, who wore the biblical inscription PHIL. 4: 13 on his trunks, and the bad Tyson, who sought guidance before the fight at the gravesite of legendary thug Sonny Liston. Even after his prison term for rape and his subsequent exposure as an ordinary fighter, Tyson still fascinates the public, which is why SPORTS ILLUSTRATED elected to put him and not Holyfield on the cover the week before the fight. Indeed, Tyson was a 2-to-1 favorite to become...
...film, When We Were Kings, explores the 1974 bout in Zaire, when underdog Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman. Four years later, the champ was beaten: "Through everything, Ali was a fighter. In his youth, when he...took the title from Sonny Liston, he was a dazzling, dancing fighter. In mid-career, when he willed his body through three epic bouts with Joe Frazier, he was a courageous fighter. Toward the end, when he paced his... resources to turn away muscular challengers...he was a thinking fighter. Last week he was an old fighter. He had to match the craft...
...Liston and Chou are planning to get married in December...