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Boxing Highlights
With Ali, boxing was chic. All smiles and flashes and a little cha-cha, with
Frank Sinatra on the sidelines, it was one marvelous of all boxing
highlights. But before that, before Ali had strutted shadowboxing for the
stage, boxing was Mr. Grim. Many dour Morse coders are busy trying to
decipher telegraph codes as Joe Louis representing America tries to knock
out Max Schmeling who would represent Germany and its face of Adolf Hitler.
And there was still, even before that, the Cinderella Man. And there was
Jack Dempsey.
Boxing highlights is one of the most colorful highlights in history, even in
a time when color of choice was still black and white. It had represented
every facet of man, from rags to riches, and riches to rags, from dedication
to consternation, boxing highlights has seen them all.
Here are some of the best boxing highlights the world has experienced.
Yes, Joe Louis was one spectacular fighter, but it wasn’t his persona that
made his 1938 contest against Max Schmeling one of the most important boxing
highlights, it was what they would represent. To many, it was a symbolical
match: Joe Louis would be carrying the burden of the American dream, while
Max Schmeling would be Germany and Adolf Hitler’s propaganda. On the
immortalized date of June 22, 1938, Joe Louis became the champion of the
American cause.
Even when he was Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali was already a loudmouth, brazen,
brash, and spunky character –to the delight of his million admirers. He was,
to aficionados a poet and an artist, aside from an exceptional boxer. But
for most, he was more of a showman who miraculously landed on a giant
boxer’s frame.
Muhammad Ali, through wit and charm and an excellent skill in boxing, would
dominate the entire era populated with exceptional boxers like Frazier and
Foreman. But neither their bright shining lights can make dim Ali’s blaze of
stardom. He was every bit a star, and he did what other stars would do: stay
in front of the camera.
But what others wouldn’t readily see is that behind those charms was a
devious tactician. Ali was a master goader, and that’s what he does to
dispossess opponents long before a match starts. But he analyses and
executes devices well; evident with the way he disposed Foreman in “Rumble
in the Jungle” and Frazier in “Thrilla in Manila”, two of the best boxing
highlights in history.
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