{"id":35677,"date":"2014-02-09T17:57:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T23:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35677"},"modified":"2014-02-09T17:57:25","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T23:27:25","slug":"george-foreman-muhammad-ali-ken-norton-70s-boxing-more-jack-ohalloran-talks-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=35677","title":{"rendered":"George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, 70&#8217;s Boxing &#038; More &#8211; Jack O&#8217;Halloran Talks Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=2104\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/?p=2104\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2047\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"jack ohalloran part1 header\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jack-ohalloran-part1-header.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>Exclusive Interview by\u00a0Geno McGahee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(Interview conducted in 2007)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI was given a good talent and I never really took care of it.\u201d\u2014Jack O\u2019Halloran<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most people know Jack O\u2019Halloran from his movie career.\u00a0 His portrayal of the mute super villain \u201cNon\u201d in Superman and Superman II may be his most memorable performance, but before he was fighting the \u201cMan of Steel,\u201d he was in the boxing ring, facing some of the biggest names that the pugilistic world has ever seen.\u00a0 In 1966, the journey would begin, and O\u2019Halloran would destroy Joe Pinto in one round.\u00a0 At a towering 6 feet, 6 inches, and weighing in typically in the 240 pound range, O\u2019Halloran presented an imposing site and was a very promising heavyweight in a time that was considered the golden age for the division.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In his first sixteen professional bouts, he compiled a record of, 15-0-1, 7 KO\u2019s, and had the size and durability to be a force in the division.\u00a0 He would lose a decision to the former European Heavyweight Champion, Joe Bugner, and then went toe to toe with the 2-Time Heavyweight Champion, George Foreman before it was stopped in the fifth round, in a questionable call.\u00a0 At the time of the stoppage, O\u2019Halloran was actually ahead on the scorecards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newzbreaker.com\/2014\/02\/09\/george-foreman-muhammad-ali-ken-norton-boxing-more-jack-ohalloran-chats-part-i\/\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;\">Read the rest of:\u00a0George Foreman, Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, 70&#8217;s Boxing &amp; More &#8211; Jack O&#8217;Halloran Talks Part I<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive Interview by\u00a0Geno McGahee (Interview conducted in 2007) \u201cI was given a good talent and I never really took care of it.\u201d\u2014Jack O\u2019Halloran Most people know Jack O\u2019Halloran from his movie career.\u00a0 His portrayal of the mute super villain \u201cNon\u201d in Superman and Superman II may be his most memorable performance, but before he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9863,294,427,519],"class_list":["post-35677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-70s-boxing-more-jack-ohalloran-talks-part-i","tag-george-foreman","tag-ken-norton","tag-muhammad-ali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35677"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}