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Baltimore Boxing shares Muhammad Ali story; plans ceremonial 10 count June 16
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Baltimore, MD (June 6, 2016) ? In 1977, long before becoming a pro boxer, trainer, gym owner, successful promoter and member of the Maryland and Washington DC Boxing Hall of Fames, Jake Smith was scheduled for his first amateur fight in Maryland.
The 12-year-old Smith was excited to fight in fro Read Full Story >>>George Foreman -- Muhammad Ali Loved Joe Frazier ... Name-Calling Was An Act (VIDEO)
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
TMZ SPORTS -- George Foreman says the legendarily nasty public feud between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier was actually friendly behind closed doors ... telling TMZ Sports the two men secretly loved each other.
The war betw Read Full Story >>> Dana White -- Ariel Helwani Can Come to UFC 200 ... If He Buys a Ticket
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
TMZ SPORTS -- Dana White confirms to TMZ Sports ... MMA reporter Ariel Helwani will never receive another media credential to another UFC event "as long as I'm here" ... but says he can still buy a ticket.
Helwani and his Read Full Story >>> "BATTLE BORN BOXING" Amateur series back at Downtown Las Vegas Events Center
PhilBoxing.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Thursday night, June 9
LAS VEGAS (June 6, 2016) - "Battle Born Boxing: Uprising III" returns this Thursday night (June 9), starting at 7 p.m. PT, at the outdoor Downtown Las Vegas Events Center.
"Battle Born Boxing" is an amateur boxing series created by Neon Star Media on behalf of its clien Read Full Story >>> Two presidents and a king will speak at Muhammad Ali's funeral
By Teddy Mitrosilis, Fox Sports, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Muhammad Ali's funeral will be held on Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, and if you want a quick snapshot of the impact he had, consider who is scheduled to speak.
On Monday, it was confirmed that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and King Abdullah II of Jordan have been added to the list of s Read Full Story >>> Laila Ali Mourns Father Muhammad Ali and Reflects on His Legacy
By Melissa Chan, TIME.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
"I've prepared mentally for many years, that obviously one day I was going to lose my father and that time has come"
Laila Ali, one of the many proud daughters of the late boxing legend Muhammad Ali, opened up on live TV on Monday about her father?s legacy and her personal grief over his passing. Read Full Story >>> I wrote to him ? address: 'Muhammad Ali, USA'. A month later, the great man replied
By Paul Gibson, The Guardian, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Many years ago I came across the word ineffable in a book and, unsure of its meaning, looked it up in the dictionary. I have never forgot the definition of that rather obscure word because, when I read it, the image of one man sprang into my mind?s eye as vividly as if his beautiful profile really w Read Full Story >>> Meeting my childhood hero, Muhammad Ali
By John Ruane, Chicago Now, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
When Muhammad Ali stepped into the ring at the City Auditorium in Atlanta to face Jerry Quarry on October 26, 1970, a 13 year-old boy stood next to his father at Angie?s Tavern at 84th and Pulaski on the Southwest side of Chicago, excited to watch the fight. Big, tough men were lined up along the ba Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali: The Champion Who Never Sold Out
By William C. Rhoden, The New York Times, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Muhammad Ali was an ungentrified black man.
That simple truth has resonated in my heart over the last few days as volumes of praise and tributes have been lavished on Ali and his legacy.
I had not expected to be this sad. We all knew this day was coming, that he would die, but the finality of Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali Was The Meanest Boxer Of All Time
By Hamilton Nolan, Deadspin.com, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Muhammad Ali had the most unsuccessfully imitated fighting style of all time. Even now, three and a half decades after his retirement, you can still find boxers making the mistake of trying to fight like him and getting their faces split open as a consequence. This is his most lasting contribution t Read Full Story >>> Embracing the Paradox of Muhammad Ali: Gratitude to the Greatest
By Matthew Dowd , ABC News, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
When famous people pass away, it gives us all pause to examine their life and with that our own lives. We wonder what was the meaning about who they were and why does it matter. As many reflect on Muhammad Ali and the iconic figure he was for the last half of the 20th century, I would like to just t Read Full Story >>> Ringo Starr on the Time Muhammad Ali Picked Him Up
By Jordan Runtagh, Rolling Stone, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Drummer recalls Beatles' famous 1964 encounter with "physically and spiritually powerful" champ
On February 18th, 1964, just nine days after the Beatles made their acclaimed American debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, and a week before Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) won his first World Hea Read Full Story >>> The Sports Writer Who Hated Muhammad Ali
By Stefan Fatsis, Slate, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
In 1964, the New York Times? Arthur Daley called Ali ?a loudmouth braggart.? He never changed his mind.
Muhammad Ali?s coming out as an athletic, political, and media star happened in 1964, when the boxer, still using his given name, Cassius Clay, beat Sonny Liston to claim the heavyweight title. Read Full Story >>> Michael J. Fox on Fighting Parkinson?s Disease With Muhammad Ali: We Were ?Part of Something Bigger?
By Nicholas Hautman, US Magazine, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
They shared something special. Three days after Muhammad Ali?s death, Michael J. Fox is paying tribute to his late friend by remembering their side-by-side battle with Parkinson?s disease. In a new interview on the Today show, the 54-year-old actor recalled his time with the legendary boxer, who die Read Full Story >>> How Muhammad Ali transformed the image of Islam
By Noah Feldman, Chicago Tribune, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Boxing made Muhammad Ali famous, but his conversion to Islam -- and the meaning the world attached to it -- made him a global historical figure. Ali's conversion came to be understood as an act of transnational identification with the oppressed wretched of the earth. And through Ali, Islam itself wa Read Full Story >>> Muhammad Ali Revives a Lost Era of Sportswriting
By James Warren, Vanity Fair, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
Muhammad Ali's death inspired print and video tributes by the media that would have been unimaginable when he was world champ, a convert to the Muslim faith and a conscientious objector to Vietnam War military service. Front pages worldwide were vivid. (Poynter) As The New Yorker's David Remnick not Read Full Story >>> What we can all learn from Muhammad Ali's years in the wilderness
By Bill Siegel, The Guardian, Tue, 07 Jun 2016
When I was a child discovering Muhammad Ali in the 1970s, he was already fighting Superman in oversize comic books, already ?the most recognizable face on earth?. In 1990, when I was in my mid-20s, I got my first job in documentary film working as a researcher on Muhammad Ali: The Whole Story. It wa Read Full Story >>> Ali: Forever Young
By Joe Masterleo , Boxing.com, Mon, 06 Jun 2016
A boisterous trend-setter, his singular example changed the complexion and ethos of professional sports forever?
He had been regarded as one of the most significant sporting figures in history, if not the greatest of them all ? inspiring, controversial and polarizing inside and outside the ring. Read Full Story >>> Pacquiao invests in Singaporean mobile game company
By Judith Balea, Rappler, Mon, 06 Jun 2016
MANILA, Philippines ? Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao has bought into a Singapore-based mobile gaming company.
Pacquiao, who?s just won a Senate seat in the Philippine elections last month, snapped up a small stake in Gtoken, a platform that publishes crowdsourced mobile games, for an undisclosed am Read Full Story >>> Freddie Roach reflects on Muhammad Ali and the burden of Parkinson?s
By Mitch Abramson, RingTV.com, Mon, 06 Jun 2016
Trainer Freddie Roach reacted to the death of Muhammad Ali as most have, with sadness and heartache. But for Roach, Ali?s passing may have hit closer to home because of the disease they both had to contend with.
As someone stricken with Parkinson?s disease, Roach, 56, couldn?t help but view Ali?s Read Full Story >>>
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