Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone must know by now that Joe Frazier decked Muhammad Ali in the 15th round of their championship fight Monday. That's what all the headlines say, and it's the one picture every paper seems to be using. But so what? Sonny Banks and Henry Cooper each dropped Ali to the canvas once before, and they're both washed...
...Frazier by unanimous decision. And now he's the word on everyone's lips. The champion all along. There was never another who was greater. And that's pretty disappointing. No one will ever listen to another word Ali says. The jibes, the taunts, the magnificent insults have at once become ridiculous bluster...
...should we all have to be so sad? How could we pay so much and come out with so little? The subway ride back was terrible. On the Harvard platform at Park Street everyone was talking quietly about Ali; on the Ashmont platform they were talking about Frazier. One kid on the Harvard trip was talking about Frazier, though. "That guy has got to be destroyed," he said...
Even stranger than seeing Ali lose was seeing the Garden in one piece afterwards. Not one fire extinguisher was ripped off the wall; there were no teeth on the floor, at least not in section 131. The only event even approaching a riot came at the Music Hall, where the transmission broke down after the 14th round. People were standing on their chairs, throwing things and yelling, "Fuck Boston...
...think what he has done to Howard. It's devastating. Howard and his wife and kids and his home in suburban New York. Howard who loved to put his arm around Ali and ask him if he was really the king. Howard has gone the way of Teen Angel...