Ferdie Pacheco, the corner man who fixed up Muhammad Ali for years in the ring, has died. Pacheco, known as the "Fight Doctor," died Thursday at his home in Miami ... according to his wife and daughter. He met Ali in Miami during the '60s, when he trained with Angelo Dundee. Pacheco began working with them and stayed on as Ali's ringside doctor through his prime years as heavyweight champion. Pacheco went on to become...
- 11/16/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
For much of his career, boxing great Muhammad Ali was convinced that his brain wouldn’t be affected by the thousands of powerful, crippling blows he received from his opponents, says the author of a recently released biography on the iconic fighter.
“He kept saying it wasn’t going to happen to him, that he wasn’t gonna get brain damage,” Jonathan Eig, who spent four years conducting nearly 500 interviews for his book Ali: A Life, tells People.
“In fact, he encouraged his sparring partners to hit him in the head. He believed he could build up resistance to shots to the head,...
“He kept saying it wasn’t going to happen to him, that he wasn’t gonna get brain damage,” Jonathan Eig, who spent four years conducting nearly 500 interviews for his book Ali: A Life, tells People.
“In fact, he encouraged his sparring partners to hit him in the head. He believed he could build up resistance to shots to the head,...
- 10/13/2017
- by Johnny Dodd
- PEOPLE.com
Over the course of his career, Will Smith is one of those actors who has carefully cultivated a very friendly, amiable public persona. He doesn.t swear in his music, he doesn.t stir up controversy in his personal life, and even when discussing hot button issues like race in Hollywood, he.s delicate, measured, and political. Basically, he comes across as a nice, solid dude, though allegedly, according to one costar, he was a huge dick on the set of the Muhammad Ali biopic Ali. Actor and comedian Paul Rodriguez played Dr. Ferdie Pacheco, Muhammad Ali.s corner man, in Michael Mann.s 2001 Ali. He and Will Smith had worked together before on Made in America and had a swell experience, but this time things did not go so well. In an interview with San Diego radio station Rock 105.3, Rodriguez calls Smith an "A-hole" and even claims that the...
- 2/22/2016
- cinemablend.com
Muhammad Ali: Made In Miami (2008) Produced by Gaspar González, Alan Tomlinson Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami. Photo: © Bob Gomel Muhammad Ali:The Greatest Review d: Carlos Larkin Shot in 2008 and clocking in at 54 minutes, Gaspar González and Alan Tomlinson's PBS documentary Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami covers much of the same terrain as Carlos Larkin's Muhammad Ali: The Greatest, as both lean heavily on Ali’s life in the 1960s. One difference is that Made in Miami focuses on his training in Miami in the years when he first turned professional. The documentary also offers longer interviews with Ali's trainers (e.g., Angelo Dundee), doctors (e.g., Ferdie Pacheco), and sycophantic journalists who rave about how disciplined Ali was in regard to women and drink — so much so that some thought he was gay. More blatantly than the first film, Made in...
- 9/15/2011
- by Dan Schneider
- Alt Film Guide
By the time its final episode premieres on December 11, "30 for 30" will have aired thirty films on the last thirty years of sports. Nine were about football, six about baseball, five about basketball, two about boxing, two about running, and one each about BMX, hockey, Nascar, rugby, soccer, and tennis. The series, designed to celebrate Espn's thirtieth anniversary, featured the work of thirty different directors, but through its entire range of filmmakers and topics, one theme dominated the year of "30 for 30": money's insidious effect on the purity of sports.
Consider its very first episode, "King's Ransom," about the trade of Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. The Oilers' motivation? Money. Or "The Two Escobars," about the destructive impact of drug money on the Columbian national soccer. The pursuit of money was the obvious subject of some of the films, like "Small Potatoes: Who Killed the Usfl?...
Consider its very first episode, "King's Ransom," about the trade of Wayne Gretzky from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. The Oilers' motivation? Money. Or "The Two Escobars," about the destructive impact of drug money on the Columbian national soccer. The pursuit of money was the obvious subject of some of the films, like "Small Potatoes: Who Killed the Usfl?...
- 11/19/2010
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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