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By Thomas Hauser - I'd graduated from law school the previous year and was clerking for a United States district judge when I read in the New York Times that Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier had signed to fight at Madison Square Garden. That day, I mailed a check for forty dollars (equivalent to $255 today) and a request for two mezzanine tickets (the least...
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[mrpain81]

Good stuff.

[skinnystev]

very good read

[pacphobia]

Manny Pacquiao is the most exciting fighter in boxing history period.

[soul_survivor]

Every time I read a Hauser piece, I feel like I have learned more about the sport. Some of the so called writers on here could learn a thing or two.

[mattr]

Thomas Hauser is the best boxing writer by far. No pretensions, no ridiculous ego.....Just tells it like it is and uses plain English. Not like some of these "creative writing" clowns or just plain imbeciles (Woods) nowadays. I have bought plenty of his annual boxing review books and his biography of Ali is the best boxing book there is, imo.

[Smash]

yeah and we never got to see prime pac v prime floyd, boxing shame tht one! the sport will never get that back, should have been a trilogy to talk about now

[Santa_]

Hauser needs to make an account so I can green K him for this piece. I envy you bro.

[InvalidUserID]

One of the best things that happened to Pac was his loss to Morales as it made him evolve as a boxer and become a more complete boxer. From Morales III until the Margarito fight, he would have wrecked just about anyone. I think that fight took something out of him (or maybe that's when he got all religious) as he was never quite the same after.

[BobLoblaw]

Great piece and certainly not brief. Quite a read.