Teddy Atlas & Jerry Izenberg Share Boxing Stories on Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran & More

THE FIGHT with Teddy Atlas

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Fights, Sports, Training, Ufc, Boxing, Mma

4.8 • 881 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Teddy Atlas and co-host Ken Rideout talk with legendary sports journalist Jerry Izenberg about boxing, with Jerry telling stories of boxing greats like Joe Louis, Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran, and Sugar Ray Robinson.

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"Baseball, Nazis & Nedick’s Hot Dogs: Growing up Jewish in the 1930s in Newark"

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Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

05:00 - Joe Louis vs Max Schmeling 2

15:45 - Muhammad Ali

23:20 - Greatest Fighter of All-Time

36:05 - Mafia & Boxing

41:20 - Korean War

43:50 - Olympics & Corruption

49:35 - Ray Arcel & Roberto Duran

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0:00.0	Welcome to the fight with Teddy Atlas presented by Dynamics Striking.
0:07.8	I'm Ken Rideout and is my great privilege today to be joined by not only the legend Teddy Alice the voice of all combat
0:15.7	sports but legendary sports writer New Jersey native the legend Jerry Eisenberg 91 years young Jerry welcome to the show and thanks for joining us
0:26.2	Well it's good to be here Jerry it's great to have you we've been a friend a we've been friends a long time and I want to get right to it where you're one of only just for the audience out there to make them more aware
0:45.0	that might not know all of your accolades and I can't say all of them because we
0:50.7	would need about two weeks instead of a short period of time that we have to put them all out there but you're one of only two daily newspaper columnists to have covered the first 53 Super Bowls.
1:04.4	You also covered 54 consecutive Kentucky Derbys, the last five triple crown winning horses. And it's rumored that you did the first interview with Adam and Eve in the
1:17.1	garden. So between all of that and you've been around some of the all audiences of fight audience
1:27.9	I mean they're a sports audience but combat fights combat sports sports, whether it's UFC,
1:35.0	MMA, boxing, and you've covered some of the greatest fighters
1:41.0	of all time. I mean I don't think anyone covered Mohammed Ali
1:47.1	more than you did and the reason we're having you on besides that you're so good looking and you're my friend,
1:57.2	you put up with me so many years, is because we want to make sure we promote this book.
2:03.8	I believe it's your 14th, it's your latest, it's a memoir,
2:08.2	and as you can see it there, I'll read it,
2:11.0	baseball, it's got a very interesting title.
2:15.4	There's not too many titles that say,
2:17.8	Baseball, Nazis, and Nieddis, hard dogs.
2:21.8	Ha ha, baseball Nazis and Need its hot dogs.
2:25.0	Oh, that's it.
2:27.0	That says it all.
2:28.0	Growing up Jewish in the 1930s in Newark.
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