Sparring With Hemingway: And Other Legends Of The Fight Game - Plot & Excerpts
Well, if you’ve been following Big George Foreman as long as I have—from the Olympic Games in Mexico City twenty-three years ago, to his disastrous night with Ali in Zaire (the “Rumble in the Jungle”) six years later, to a pilgrimage to his Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Houston and his horse-and-cattle ranch in rural northeast Marshall, Texas, just a few weeks ago—you can’t help feeling that the George Foreman Story is the sum of every fight movie ever made, from The Harder They Fall to Body and Soul to Wallace Beery in The Champ. And come Friday evening, April 19, the forty-two-year-old ex-heavyweight champion of the world, in his “Second Coming” after an unprecedented ten-year retirement, is casting himself as a black “Rocky”—if not a black Lazarus—ready to challenge the twenty-eight-year-old undefeated king of the heavyweights, Evander Holyfield. When Jersey Joe Walcott won the heavyweight crown from Ezzard Charles at the age of thirty-seven, that feat was considered a geriatric miracle.
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