Cassius Clay arrives to the strains of the Braemar Ladies Pipe Band WHEN Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) arrived at Renfrew Airport in August 1965, he was greeted by hundreds of adoring fans – and members of the Braemar Ladies Pipe Band from Coatbridge. The boxer was riding high – he had sensationally beaten the world heavyweight champion Sonny Liston in Miami Beach the previous February. The visit to Glasgow was part of a long tour of exhibition matches and during his stay in the city he popped in to the BBC studios, then at Queen Margaret Drive in the west end, for a private screening of a film about his life.
Een ijsvogel bij een woonwijk, is dat zeldzaam? Frans Kapteijns beantwoordt vragen in Stuifm@il
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De vreemde wending in het onderzoek naar de moord op Els Slurink uit Groningen stuit op vragen Een inbreker moordt niet zo snel
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“I WOULD’VE reigned supreme, if it weren’t for Iron Mike Tyson.”
So boldy states Frank Bruno in an upcoming Sky Sports documentary on his historic bid to become the first ever bona fide British world heavyweight champion when he faced Mike Tyson on February 25 1989 at the Las Vegas Hilton Centre.
Older readers will recall the fight as one of the most eagerly anticipated sporting events in years, and even perhaps of the eighties, one offering up a Manichean struggle between a symbol of absolute good in the shape of the most beloved and jovial British heavyweight since Henry Cooper, and in Tyson a man who emitted an aura of such pristine malevolence you would not have been surprised to learn that he routinely basebatted his own reflection for looking at him the wrong way.