Angelo Dundee liked to call himself ''a confidence man,'' an expert at bolstering the self-assurance of boxers who needed more poise in their punch. But there was always a wink in his words; he was the actor who wants you to know just how crafty he is playing his role. Dundee, who died Wednesday at 90, was a confidence man, all right. He was best...
Muhammad Ali soaked in cheers and chants along with a rendition of ''Happy Birthday'' as friends and admirers celebrated his coming 70th birthday at a party in Louisville, Ky. As partygoers mingled in a lobby of the Muhammad Ali Center, Ali walked slowly to a second-floor balcony overlooking them. Ali, who has Parkinson's disease, leaned against a...
In the 1970s, giants walked the land and felled one another with reverberant blows. Joe Frazier, a model of disciplined persistence, pressed forward on the attack until he finally dropped Muhammad Ali with a perfect left hook in the 15th round of their first bout. An exhausted George Foreman took a week to fall down in the ring in Kinshasa after...