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## Crossroads "This isn't artistic," Howard Cosell told viewers who tuned into ABC's broadcast of George Foreman versus Ron Lyle on January 24, 1976, "but it is slugging." As Cosell described these heavyweights trading blows, it escaped him that the artistry was not in the fight but in its production. Two of the hardest hitters in the sport stood toe to toe, landing punches and scoring knockdowns, right inside Caesars Palace. "The way the public wants it," Cosell added with a hint of derision, but he was right-and it wasn't a coincidence. This was a carefully planned, made-for-television event designed to provide the "public" with what it wanted and sow the seeds for the future of prizefighting. Foreman straddled the sport's past and future. Many believed that his best days were behind him, but few could point to a better successor should the current heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, follow through on his threats to retire. Foreman had originally signed on to fight Pedro Lovell-who made a bigger imprint on the sport as an actor playing the club fighter "Spider" Rico in the Rocky saga than he did as a prizefighter-at the Las Vegas Convention Center, a nod to Foreman's early career

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Author

Andrew R. M. Smith

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781477319765

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Sports, History