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Tag Archives: Boxing
50 Years Ago Today: Cassius Clay v Sonny Liston
Ali post-Fight and Frazier mid-fight
Posted in Photography, Sport
Tagged 1960s, 1970s, Angelo Dundee, Boxing, Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali, Photography, Sport
Happy Birthday Muhammad Ali
“A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.” – Muhammad Ali
Muhammad Ali Surprises Kids on Candid Camera, 1974
Posted in Sport, Television
Tagged 1974, Boxing, Candid Camera, Happiness, Muhammad Ali, Open Culture, Television, TV
More Words of Muhammad Ali, by Louis Vuitton and Yasiin Bey
Part 3 of Louis Vuitton’s beautifully realized Core Values campaign. Words of Muhammad Ali: Float
Parts 1 and 2 here
Posted in Advertising, Sport
Tagged Boxing, Core Values, Fashion, Louis Vuitton, Mos Def, Muhammad Ali, Niels Shoe Meulman, Poetry, Short FIlm, Stuart McIntyre, Words, Yasiin Bey
The Greatest Words of Muhammad Ali, by Louis Vuitton and Yasiin Bey
Hip-hop emcee, Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def), and calligrapher, Niels Shoe Meulman, pay homage to The Greatest, and sport’s greatest showman, Muhammad Ali, in this video for Louis Vuitton’s Core Values campaign. Drawing on Ali’s most famous quotes, Bey adopts the role of storyteller, bard and (literal) ringmaster to glorify the heavyweight champ. The results, directed by Stuart McIntyre, are beautiful. Both visually and lyrically dazzling.
Posted in Advertising, Poetry, Quotes, Sport
Tagged Boxing, Core Values, Hip Hop, Louis Vuitton, Muhammad Ali, Niels Shoe Meulman, Poetry, Short FIlm, Stuart McIntyre, Words, Yasiin Bey
Muhammad Ali v Oscar Bonavena, 1970 (Amazing LIFE Photos)
As was perhaps befitting of a man who had evolved from merely a cosmically gifted champion into a genuine global superstar, by the 1970s Muhammad Ali’s fights had become so much more than merely international sports events. As his fame grew and grew, so his fight-nights morphed into something extraordinary, almost surreal, somewhere between a catwalk show, a film premiere and a Harlem grindhouse. They became an irresistible whirlpool for celebrities, hustlers, pushers and pimps. Where the rich and not-so-famous came to strut, jive and swagger. To be seen and photographed. Where vanity and ego swelled cavernous arenas, the smell of greenbacks and chinchilla threatened to overwhelm. And where, frankly, what happened in the square ring was almost incidental.
The zenith of this ringside showboating was almost certainly Ali’s iconic 1971 championship fight against Smokin’ Joe Frazier, at Madison Square Garden, NYC (famously photographed, again for LIFE magazine, by a ticketless Frank Sinatra.) But here are some fantastic photographs of a slightly earlier contest, from 1970, against the cast-iron Argentine Oscar Bonavena, also at MSG.
They are a wonderful document of the time, the place…and the intoxicating attitude.
(For the record, Ali knocked out Bonavena in the 15th round. The only time the Argentine was stopped in his craeer.)
Posted in Photography, Sport
Tagged 1970s, Argentina, Boxing, Harlem, Heavyweight, Heavyweight champion, Madison Square Garden, Muhammad Ali, Oscar Bonavena, Sport