It is an awkward exercise to eulogize a character who dwarfed sports and life in the manner of Muhammad Ali. Awkward and particularly painful, because we have spoken of Ali the athlete, social activist and cultural phenomenon in the past tense for decades, even as he quietly went about the business of making the planet […]
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Mixed martial arts: Caleb Hall wins NEF amateur featherweight title
Ten fights later, Hall has a title belt to show for that grueling, circuitous journey. He forced Erik Nelson of Lewiston’s Central Maine Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu to tap out midway through the second round Saturday night in their New England Fights amateur featherweight championship battle at Androscoggin Bank Colisee. “It feels good. It’s about time,” Hall […]
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Boxing: N.H. author to discuss “Phantom Punch” at Lewiston Public Library
The eyes of the sports world — trained two generations ago never to miss a bout for the one, the only, heavyweight championship — were fixed upon Lewiston shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 25, 1965. If those eyes didn’t blink, perhaps they saw the short, stabbing right hand of Muhammad Ali connecting with the temple […]
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New England Fights: Fight Night XX doubles up
Fayette’s Bryce Bamford took to the ring for his first Mixed Martial Arts bout at New England Fights Fight Night XX at the Androscoggin Bank Colisee. His debut lasted just 19 seconds, but Bamford packed a wallop in the brief but convincing victory. “The last six months I’ve been preparing,” Bamford said. “I was just happy […]
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Moore takes bronze, on her way to gold
Even though boxer Amelia Moore has been fighting her way to the Olympics for the past 10 months – and came one step closer last week – she believes she’s opened Pandora’s Box. The 25-year-old Norway native took the bronze at last week’s Olympic qualifiers in Baltimore, Md., just down the road from her current home of […]
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Boxing: Gamache wins; absentees don’t spoil fight night at LHS
LEWISTON — Jose Angel Ortiz came to fight this time, as promised. The evidence was visible Saturday night in the abrasions under Steven Gamache’s eyes, the welts on his forehead, and the impingement in a left shoulder that the hometown hero could barely lift while he shook hands and posed for post-fight selfies with friends and […]
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Fight card set for Saturday at Lewiston High School
LEWISTON — Timing is everything to a fighter and a promoter trying to organize a fight card in Maine. Promoter/trainer Glenn Cugno has been planning Saturday’s event the past year to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Muhammad Ali’s brief bout with Sonny Liston in Lewiston on May 25, 1965. Cugno has lined up 10 […]
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Ali-Liston: Memories of the moment
We asked, you answered. here are some of the memories you, the readers, shared with us when we asked for volunteers: “I was present at the Muhammad Ali fight. I did not see the knockout punch. However, on the next day, which was a Sunday, my family went to Holiday Inn in Auburn as we […]
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The Phantom Punch at 50: Commemorative issue to mark anniversary of Ali-Liston II
LEWISTON — The city of Lewiston wasn’t the original destination for the second meeting between Muhammad Ali (then known to many as Cassius Clay) and Sonny Liston, but as Paul Marcotte of the Lewiston Evening Journal wrote in a stop-the-presses, breaking news story on May 7, 1965, Lewiston would become “the fight capitol (sic) for […]
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Boxer Tomas Smith drops pounds, lands collegiate title along the way
When Tomas Smith decided to take a shot at losing weight, he put on the gloves, dropped the pounds and developed a passion for boxing that earned him a collegiate heavyweight title. Smith’s goal to shed the fat and get in shape began when a high school friend brought Smith, who weighed in at a […]