Boxing
- June 23 - Joe Frazier scored a 7th round TKO over Jerry Quarry.
- August 26 - José Nápoles retained the World Welterweight Championship in a 15 round decision over Emile Griffith.
- August 31 – death of Rocky Marciano (45), Italian-American World Heavyweight boxing champion, in an air crash
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Famous quotes containing the word boxing:
“... to paint with oil paints for the first time ... is like trying to make something exquisitely accurate and microscopically clear out of mud pies with boxing gloves on.”
—Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)
“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing—for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938)