Boxing Essay

the son of Cassius Marcellus Jr and Odessa Grady Clay. His father made a living painting signs and murals, and his mother worked as a domestic servant. Clay contributed to his family’s finance by working as a janitor at a nearby college. He took up boxing at the age of 12, when he found out when his bicycle got stolen. Young Clay then reported a bike theft to Joe Elsby Martin, a Louisville police officer who ran a youth program teaching boys how to box. From there, Joe Martin invited Clay to his…

Toughest Fight Ali was the “Sports Personality of the Twentieth Century” named by the British Broadcasting Corporation (CBS Interactive Inc.). He was one of the greatest boxers of all time, if not the best. When commentating on Ali’s incredible boxing skills, Richard Hoffer said the boxer was “more than just lip service”(Smith 49). A general misconception is that Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease because of old age. Parkinson’s is a progressive disease of the nervous system (CBS…

movie that is based on the true story of a boxer in the middle of the Great Depression. How through boxing he had once been on the top, and when the Great Depression started he lost it all, as many did to, but slowly through boxing he managed to get his family to survive and inspire the people to fight to. When the movie begins, November 30, 1928, James J. Braddock the main character is in a boxing match that he wins. After the match he goes to his house and his family. The thing about this…

This being said, in order to create fierce competition, the Greeks needed to implement the rule for weight or age classes with all fighting competitions. The competitions were pale, which translates to boxing and was introduced in 724 BCE. The next sport being introduced in 688 BCE, pyx or boxing. Lastly, the most violent of them all, the pankration which came into the Olympics in 648 BCE. All three of these competitions became more and more violent with no evidence of…

giving a history lesson on the things making Liston such a feared fighter and unappreciated champion. In the other story, a story on former world heavyweight champion James ‘Buster’ Douglas and how he was living in luxury after his retirement from boxing, I had a cohesive foundation with which to work, a real coherent place where he’s headquartered and…

world for being a professional boxer and an activist. Muhammad started training amaturally at the age of 12. At the age of 18 he won his first gold medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics and then later that year started boxing professionally. He then went on to win the WBA, WBC, and Lineal Heavyweight titles from Sonny Liston. Mahammad then changed to Islam and changed his name from Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. Which he considered to be his “slave name”. To Muhammad…

Schmeling Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried “max” Schmeling was born in Klein Luckow, Providence of Pomerania, German empire on September 28th, 1905. We dont have much information on his family but from what we know, his dad was boxing fanatic. Max became interested in boxing in 1921 when his father took him to the heavy-weight championship between Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier. Impressed with Dempsey's performance in that fight, young Schmeling became determined to imitate his new…

The “Rumble in the Jungle,” an epic boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in Zaire on October 30, 1974, was more than just a sporting event. It was a cultural phenomenon that brought together African and African American culture for the whole world to see. This complex and multi-faceted event was captured by many photographers and film makers, including Sonia Katchian. One of Katchian’s photographs in particular serves as a microcosm of the fight, capturing the violence,…

but his time wasn’t where broadcasting originality. Cosell was mainly known for his interviews with the late great Mohammed Ali, but he wasn’t the first broadcaster to focus on prize fighters. Although Mohammed Ali was one of the biggest names in boxing and entertaining at the time which helped Cosell get his fame. There were other broadcasters that come before Cosell, names like Harold Arlin, Major J. Andrew White and Ted Husing. They, like Cosell, made their names for themselves…

living lavishly in an elegant house in New Jersey, with a healthy happy family, and a promising boxing career. Sadly, the Great Depression unexpectedly takes the United States by storm, and almost every aspect of American life is impacted, including entertainment. James J. Braddock is quickly out of a job and living in a shabby one-room apartment in New Jersey, barely making ends meet, and even having his boxing license revoked. Every day, he heads down to the loading dock and begs in a group of…