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The Greatest Boxing Knock Outs the World Has Seen
It’s quizzically contradicting that people would go on rallies and public
outcries over wars and slaughters but won’t bat an eyelash when viewing a
boxing match, although less deadly but brutal and bloody nevertheless. Well,
the answer for this paradox maybe as elusive as the science of brain
surgery, a thing closer to Freudian, but it could be that people dig boxing
because of what it symbolizes.
The greatest moments of boxing are those greatest boxing knock outs the
world has seen, another contradiction. Every boxer is judged by his ability
through his boxing knock outs in proportion to the matches he has
participated and won. And by that people will cheer and fawn over those
boxers that have the best boxing knock outs the world has ever seen.
Here are some of the best known boxing knock outs the world has seen.
When Muhammad Ali taunted a canvas ridden Sonny Liston during a
controversial 1964 match in Maine, it became one of the best known boxing
knock outs in history. It wasn’t the most glorious, however, and neither was
the fight. What propelled the event to renown was the image that preserved
perfectly that part of history, a marvelous shot even with today’s standard.
It was a shot that depict an image of a man –a champion that despite his
brashness was loved by many.
http://encarta.msn.com/media_701694057_761571782_-1_1/Ali_Defeats_Liston.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ali-Liston.jpg
Joe Frazier, during his heydays, was an unstoppable force. A pure bred of in
fighter, “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier was named as such due to his comparison to a
locomotive, relentlessly advancing to the enemy until he closes to deliver a
barrage of attacks that only a very few fighter can withstand. The few would
include George Foreman. That night, Frazier was confident, but that would
soon ebb away as Frazier’s tank could never withstand a furry of powerful
blows from Foreman.
It was a match between two champions, but in the match, was clearly a
distance in terms of superiority. For all “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier’s
unstoppable force, he could never move an also immovable object. Frazier
took the canvas 6 times in two rounds, propelling the young winner top
stardom and cementing the fight in boxing history.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0040.htm
The rendering of Max Baer was typically of a villain, a powerful one –much
of the boxer’s dismay. Even though he was a gentleman, his destructive force
had claimed an opponent’s life and was suspect to another. That’s why when
James Braddock, known later as the Cinderella Man, was slated to face the
killer champ, it was to the spectator’s astonishment when Braddock made the
greatest upset victory by winning over Baer.
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