HBO boxing analyst Larry Merchant was a newspaper ... he embraced a religious sect that frightened white America. Cosell was Jewish, born Howard Cohen in North Carolina and raised in Brooklyn ...

In 1982, Howard Cosell turned his back on boxing. Today, the sport of boxing will welcome Cosell back as it opens the doors to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota to the biggest ...

Woody Allen's comedy classic Bananas, featured two of boxing’s best known pundits - Don Dunphy and Howard Cosell. In a way, this movie signaled a changing of the guard. Dunphy was sparse ...

Seldom does the second Ali-Frazier fight make it onto boxing historians’ rankings ... videotape of that first match alongside host Howard Cosell. As usual, Ali taunted Frazier cruelly about ...

CANASTOTA, N.Y. (AP) — Broadcaster Howard Cosell has been elected posthumously to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota. Former featherweight champion Danny “Little Red” Lopez ...

“With total contempt,” Cosell said. “I don’t believe in scab football.” “Boxing is drama on its grandest scale,” wrote Howard Cosell. “No other athletic event is as electrifying as ...

"The boxing world was very good to us," Colin Cosell said in accepting the award for his grandfather. "With his trademark modesty, I'm sure Howard would say he was very good to the world of boxing ...

7. Alex Wallau When Howard Cosell stepped away from boxing after Larry Holmes' trashing of Randall Cobb in the early 1980s, Wallau was teamed with pros like Al Michaels and Dan Dierdorf.

He ran Howard Cosell out of boxing. Thank you, Tex. “Unless I cure cancer, there’s no greater gift, no greater boon to mankind, darlin’,” Cobb said. “It’s the only real point of pride ...