epub |eng | 2016-01-07 | Author:Dave Hannigan

CHAPTER EIGHT Trouble in Paradise Island One more fight, that’s all. Then I’ll retire. Muhammad Ali, New York City, May 23, 1978 FIVE DAYS BEFORE THE FIGHT, Angelo Dundee was ...

epub |eng | 2016-09-01 | Author:Roberto Duran

SIX REDEMPTION ROAD IT’S NOT HOW MANY TIMES you get knocked down; it’s how many times you get back up. Everyone thought I was finished except me. Of course Don ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-23 | Author:Nathan Shapow [Nathan Shapow and Bob Harris]

CHAPTER ELEVEN THE CRUISE TO HELL (STUTTHOF) Our unpaid labour was clearly crucial to the ever-weakening cause of the Third Reich. So much so that as the net began to ...

epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

The Christmas holidays in 1909 had been marked by chaos, as Hattie McClay, Belle Schreiber, and Etta Duryea all found themselves at Tiny Johnson’s home at the same time. Christmas ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-27 | Author:Graeme Kent

The first semi-official gathering of some of the White Hopes occurred on 11 May 1911 at the National Sporting Club in New York. Promoter Tom O’Rourke announced that, in order ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Mike Tyson

10 I couldn’t sleep the night before I was going to be released from prison. At four a.m. I started hearing the helicopters whirring outside in the sky. They were ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Jack Newfield [Newfield, Jack]

Columbo family capo Michael Franzese arranged the meeting in which King agreed to do a co-promotion with an FBI undercover agent posing as a drug dealer seeking to launder cash. ...

epub |eng | 2013-03-01 | Author:Nick Tosches [Tosches, Nick]

In open testimony today, John Vitale and Frank Mitchell of St. Louis pleaded the Fifth Amendment in refusing to answer questions about the management of Sonny Liston, the No. 1 ...

epub |eng | 2014-04-01 | Author:Brin-Jonathan Butler

The next day we crossed the border back into Tijuana and waited with Rigondeaux in one of the arena’s private dressing rooms at the end of a long corridor. The ...

epub |eng | 2014-09-08 | Author:McNeil, William F.

Cus’s voice was raspy during the talk, causing him to clear his throat frequently. It was the first symptom of the insidious illness that would take his life less than ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-01-09 | Author:Thomas Hauser [Hauser, Thomas]

Then came an occasion that would have been unthinkable several years earlier. On December 10, 1974, at the invitation of Gerald Ford, Ali visited the White House. GERALD FORD: “I ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-13 | Author:Robert Edwards

CHAPTER EIGHT THAT FIGHT ‘Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.’ WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Julius Caesar, (1599). The embarrassing chaos at the ...

epub |eng | | Author:W. K. Stratton

If Floyd had practiced self-denial at his training camps and in his choice of accommodations at earlier fights—a freezing jockey’s room, a rat-infested abandoned dancehall—he now indulged himself. He lodged ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-14 | Author:Theresa Runstedtler [Runstedtler, Theresa]

Figure 13. The caricatures of black American boxers that appeared in French newspapers closely resembled popular images of the African tirailleurs (soldiers). “Après le match—Sen-Sen chewing gum,” L'Auto, 28 March ...

epub |deu | 2000-11-06 | Author:David Remnick

Eine Woche vor dem Kampf legte Clay sich auf einen Massagetisch im Fifth Street Gym und sagte zu den Reportern, die um ihn versammelt waren: »Ich mache Geld, der Popcornmann ...