![]() So what if Terry Daniels was just another blip on the heavyweight radar screen, a ham-and-egger who got to sniff the choicest filet mignon if not actually get much of a taste. “You can find lots of boxers that didn’t get hurt. “I’d do it again,” he said of the path he took that led him into boxing and eventually into his playing David, without the slingshot, in his attempt to live out his impossible dream of actually winning. Joe Frazier attacks the outclassed Terry Daniels. It still seemed pretty fantastic to Daniels in 2004, for an interview he did with the Dallas Morning News, even though by then he’d been diagnosed with Parkinson’s and traumatic brain injury. “I told the fight promoters I’ve got a white kid from Dallas, he’s friends with the Cowboys, and everyone knows the Cowboys are going to the Super Bowl in New Orleans,” Lord said at the time. How Daniels got his mostly undeserved chance for the kind of glory most journeymen can only dream of was the result of Lord successfully pitching a concept that sounded like a precursor to the plot Sylvester Stallone got Hollywood to buy into four years later that had Sly’s fictitious creation, Rocky Balboa, fighting the seemingly invincible Apollo Creed. ![]() “I felt like shaking his hand,” an awed Daniels said afterward, although his gratitude might have owed in part to the career-high $35,000 payday he was to receive for taking his anticipated beating. 9 rating, came to the center of the ring and stared Frazier in the eye. That false air of bravado quickly dissipated when Daniels, who came in with a 29-4-1 (25) record against suspect competition and an overly generous No. ![]() I feel I’ve done everything I can to get ready for this fight. But Daniels’ death might be classified as a bit more consequential given the circumstances of his hopeless bid to dethrone Frazier, who knocked him down five times on January 15, 1972, in New Orleans’ Rivergate Arena before referee Herman Dutreix stepped in and waved a halt to the one-sided massacre.Īsked if he actually believed he had the stuff to douse Smokin’ Joe’s flaming fists, Daniels said, “I don’t think I do. The same might be said of Terry Daniels, who was 74 when he passed away, after a lengthy illness, on September 3 in Willoughby, Ohio. It takes much longer to recite the names of all the failed challengers for boxing’s most prestigious title, and the thick-book of wannabes ranges from the very good to relatively anonymous passers-through, who somehow wangled a shot at the grand prize but were exposed as being woefully lacking and, for all intents and purposes, were never heard from again.įor all the glory that Smokin’ Joe wrapped himself in for posterity’s sake through his holy trilogy with Muhammad Ali and other elite big men, two of his early defenses of the New York State Athletic Commission “world” title included such trivia entries as Dave Zygiewicz and Manuel Ramos. Terry has been working with Thrive Lake County for the last 2 months to set the stage for a Lake County pilot project of the CommonWealth - a unique and innovative program from hOurworld that will utilize a cooperative business model, and time as an alternative currency to bring about grassroots economic development.It doesn’t take long to call the roll of legitimately great heavyweights, and the late Joe Frazier’s name deserves to be on that short list of ring immortals. ![]() hOurworld was formed to take the lessons learned from the Hour Exchange and make it available to a wider audience. The Hour Exchange in Portland, Maine is one of the oldest and largest time exchanges in the US, with over 1,000 members trading over 20,000 hours annually. Lakeport Senior Center, 527 Konocti Avenue, Lakeportĭonation: Free with a potluck item, $5 withoutīe prepared to share what you are doing to promote a healthy local living economy during our community updates.Ħ:15 Special Guest - Terry Daniels, hOurworld
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