Sentences with phrase «heavyweight championship»
The phrase "heavyweight championship" refers to a prestigious title in boxing or other combat sports, given to the strongest and most skilled fighter in the weight class known as heavyweight. It signifies the highest level of achievement and recognition in that particular sport. Full definition
According to Lewis, a Spinks - Cooney fight would be for the true «heavyweight championship of the world.»
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Chuck: Biopic about the «Bayonne Bleeder,» Chuck Wepner (played by Liev Schreiber), whose biggest claim to fame was a knockdown of Muhammad Ali during the world heavyweight championship fight in 1975.
HOLY WAR Sirs: Before the recent Clay - Liston world heavyweight championship fight, I was thoroughly for Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Professional wrestler Chris Benoit's powerful build and muscular grappling maneuvers helped to make him a crowd favorite and propelled him to a world heavyweight championship in 2004.
Jose Torres kept his world light heavyweight championship by knocking out Chic Calderwood in San Juan, but he still does not have the unquestioning admiration of his fellow Puerto Ricans
Synopsis: On October 30, 1974, perhaps the most famous heavyweight championship boxing match of all time took place in Kinshasa, Zaire: the «Rumble in the Ju... [MORE]
America got to know him as Cassius Clay, but after taking the world heavyweight championship belt from Sonny Liston, he joined the Nation of Islam and became Muhammad Ali.
In fact, in his 17th fist fight the other evening, he won the Golden Gloves heavyweight championship by a knockout and had some veteran observers in the Madison Square Garden crowd of 12,000 comparing him to the young, unpolished Rocky Marciano.
He even posted an undefeated record on his way to the light heavyweight championship.
On October 30, 1974, perhaps the most famous heavyweight championship boxing match of all time took place in Kinshasa, Zaire: the «Rumble in the Jungle» between champion George Foreman and challenger Muhammad Ali.
Challenger Moore tells in his own words — and Artist Robert Riger's drawings show — how Moore expects to win the world's heavyweight championship from Rocky Marciano in next Tuesday night's big fight
But even Charley Goldman had to admit that a fellow who was fighting for the U.S. Golden Gloves heavyweight championship after a scant 15 fights had definite «possibilities,» and was anything but «ridiculous.»
Sam was part of the team managing «Relentless» Lamon Brewster when he knocked out Wladimir Klitschko in the fifth round to win the W.B.O. heavyweight championship in 2004.
• 15 Rounds in Chicago The long - delayed heavyweight championship fight between Archie Moore and Floyd Patterson will be held in Chicago Stadium Nov. 30.
I can picture it now: Wilder sensationally climbs off the canvas to nail Joshua, Gassiev moves up and stops Wilder for all the belts, then we'll have Usyk - Gassiev II for the undisputed heavyweight championship.
It was to have decided whether Eddie Machen, the handsome and powerful Californian, or Zora Folley, the handsome and powerful Arizonan, was the clear - cut, undisputed challenger for Floyd Patterson's politics - ridden heavyweight championship.
The swirl of a major league pennant race or a Marciano - Moore heavyweight championship fight — yes, even the World Series — will be only of passing interest in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Columbus, Atlanta, Miami and many more citadels of football.
Tex Maule, our No. 1 pro football writer since 1956, says goodby to the sport he has done so much for in order to concentrate on special assignments, such as next week's preview of the Foreman - Ali heavyweight championship fight.
# 8 Jack Johnson GALVESTON First black to hold heavyweight championship, from 1908 to» 15; lost title in controversial 26 - round bout to Jess Willard.
World heavyweight championship ussr dating in on october 00, 2006, was the first woman to be named.
Speed dating coventry TNA world heavyweight championship talk about a turn of, what were paying the bands each saturday.
As Wepner claws his way to the New Jersey heavyweight championship, he watches 1962's Requiem for a Heavyweight and longs for respect, even as he continually takes his wife (a terrific Elizabeth Moss) and daughter for granted while following his love for «wine, women and song.»
That is what a blithely unconcerned Cassius Clay thinks Monday night's heavyweight championship fight will be.
• Claim Juniper Archie Moore and Manager Charlie Johnston signed to meet Canada's James J. Parker in Toronto July 25, to decide (says Johnston) the «world heavyweight championship,» set the stage for Archie to claim the champion's share of the purse in his September bout with Floyd Patterson.
«So, I call the lawyer in, and we start talking about a contract to join the stable of fighters that Don King promotes and hopefully to get a shot at the heavyweight championship of the world.
He knocked out Joe Louis in the sixth round for the heavyweight championship.
A heavyweight championship boxing quiz to excite the memory and increase the lore of fans and armchair experts
Consider this quote from boxer Max Baer after losing the heavyweight championship to James J. Braddock in 1935: «Well, he's got a wife and children.
I could have followed the security man with the two Domino's pizzas, who walked out of Foreman's dressing room at about the same time, almost an hour after Foreman's 12 - round loss by decision to Evander Holyfield for the heavyweight championship last Friday night at the Atlantic City Convention Center, but he seemed to go in another direction.
BOXING — VINCENTE PAUL RONDON of Venezuela scored a technical knockout over Jimmy Dupree of Jersey City in 2:58 of the sixth round at Caracas, Venezuela to capture the WBA light - heavyweight championship.
Hodge had won his first 15 fights (11 by knockout) and had wrapped up the heavyweight championship of the western team of the Golden Gloves.
Larry Holmes pummeled an outmatched David Bey to score a 10th - round TKO, improve his record to 47 - 0 and retain his heavyweight championship in what was his last fight (maybe)
Ten years ago, John Ruiz lost a 12 - round decision to James Toney in a heavyweight championship fight at Madison Square Garden.
If his man is to meet heavyweights, Mushky figures, it will be either Jimmy Ellis or Joe Frazier, who hold claims on the heavyweight championship while Muhammad Ali is in Coventry.
Indeed, McNeeley has beaten almost as many stiffs as Rocky took on during Al Weill's studiously cautious direction of his approach to the heavyweight championship of the world.
One day the paths of the two men would cross, and at that improbable intersection would lie the heavyweight championship of the world.
To hear Mushky and Foster talk, Foster will take the light heavyweight title and then the heavyweight championship as well.
Jimmy Ellis, his days as Muhammad Ali's sparring partner far behind him, crashed home an effective right hand to win the WBA version of the heavyweight championship and, finally, a chance at better paydays
From Morocco to Tokyo, people watched him go against Jimmy Ellis for the World Boxing Association's heavyweight championship.
Ernie Terrell won the WBA version of the heavyweight championship by beating Eddie Machen — and proved that he is no threat to Cassius Clay, Sonny Liston or Floyd Patterson.
Whereas Joe Louis would declare may the best man win, Clay would never shy in telling people how great he was and how the heavyweight championship was his destiny.
It really looks like a heavyweight championship belt, for the heavyweight champion you are.
With Creed's help, Rocky strives to regain the «eye of the tiger» before confronting Lang in a grueling rematch for the world heavyweight championship.
It was face of Chuck «The Bayonne Bleeder» Wepner, who was about to fight Muhammed Ali in the old Richfield Coliseum near Cleveland — then a sparkling new jewel — for the heavyweight championship and inspire a young Sly Stallone to write a screenplay about «The Italian Stallion.»
The coverage reminded me of the well - orchestrated pre-fight hype of a heavyweight championship bout — a match ultimately memorable not for the dramatic or unexpected outcome but for the staged antics at the weigh - in or the endless jawboning from both camps.
A biography of the controversial fighter follows Liston from the mean streets, where he was a petty criminal, to the heavyweight championship and his life as a pawn of organized crime.
He was introduced to the bard by a fellow marine en route to France with the American Expeditionary Force; by the time he fought for the heavyweight championship he had plowed his way through the collected works of Shakespeare, and could recite Hamlet in its entirety.
* All - new career mode, allowing players to battle throughout the United States and the world for the respect of promoters and fans while fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world;