Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only one heavyweight was in camp to provide hard contact work for Shavers but a bevy of light heavies enabled the challenger to improve his speed and footwork for the shuffling Ali...
...these sessions, light heavyweight Cookie Wallace provided an imitation of Ali that resulted in Wallace sacrificing his upper mandible for Shavers's benefit. Wallace taunted Shavers, a la Ali, and stuck his face out to receive Shavers's blows in a crude and masochistic simulation of Ali's "rope-a-dope" technique...
...Vegas and Toots Shors' Bar haven't placed their bets against Ali. They have heard that Ali is fat, and slow, and that a washed-up heavyweight named Jimmy Ellis floored him twice in sparring sessions...
...word is out that the stories are just another Ali con. Ali knows how to train and is such a master of psychological warfare that he knows exactly what it takes to win. Ali's strategy on the small piece of canvas, and his ability to take a punch, could be the determining factors in this fight...
...Ali survives this barrage and Shavers burns himself out, then Ali will get the nod in yet another decision...