Word: middleweight
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...first-degree-murder conviction of Black Panther Activist Frank ("Parky") Grace; a co-defendant and a witness had changed their testimony, but Grace's lawyers won because they also provided a wealth of new corroborating evidence. In a celebrated New Jersey murder case, a witness against former Middleweight Boxer Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter announced that he had lied at the original 1967 trial. Yet when the state's supreme court reversed the Carter conviction in 1976, it stated that it was not considering the recantation. (At the retrial, the witness changed his story back again, and Carter was reconvicted...
...world champion since 1980 but a middleweight for 14 years, Hagler is a 160-lb. fighter of old, physically and spiritually. There had been some doubt about the latter, a result of Hagler's own occasional caution. But now nine years removed from his two losses in 65 fights, to Philadelphians Willie ("the Worm") Monroe and Bobby ("Boogaloo") Watts, the champion has finally turned the public corner at 30, after coming down that bravest street in boxing, where Stanley Ketchel, Harry Greb, Tony Zale, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, Sugar Ray Robinson and all the veterans of middleweight wars hang...
...Scorsese unleashed his third classic, coming only two years after Taxi Driver proved that the Italian-American movie-maker was no fluke. Robert DeNiro, the star of that movie, appeared again as a powerful figure on the brink of insanity, this time as Jake LaMotta, a real-life former middleweight boxing champion whose power had a tendency to also manifest itself outside the ring, and who followed up boxing with stints in the mob, prison, and stand-up comedy. In honor of this occasion, the Brattle Theater is celebrating with a week of Raging Bull, which won Oscars both...
...George Clooney is one charming bastard. He ducks your compliments, absorbs your indelicate questions, jabs back with interest in you and never appears tired of the exchange: he is the middleweight champion of charm. His best punch is his wry self-awareness. While Clooney lives in one of those huge houses in the hills of Los Angeles with a giant, swinging electronic door at the foot of his driveway, he says, "I don't want to get into this behind-the-fence world. I'm afraid of getting isolated from society." When asked how he'll make sure that doesn...
...couple of weeks after Sept. 11, middleweight Bernard Hopkins provided a New York crowd with a stunning 12th round knockout of highly regarded Felix Trinidad to become undisputed champion. After the victory, Hopkins, who had grown up poor and spent time in prison, played on American emotions but still sounded sincere: “I am the American Dream!” he proclaimed. He was being humorous, ever the showman, but there was an element of truth to his words. He had struggled through a great deal, waited a long time for his second chance and finally made good...