Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shavers, considerably more talented in pugilistic pursuits than poetry, says, "Ali is an old 35 and he can't run from age. He is going to be the one surprised, not me, because I have never been in better shape...
...secret that Ali has not trained hard in the last six weeks. The champ sparred little and frequently strayed from his Deer Lake, Pa., training camp. Instead of road work, Ali walked the streets of New York City in support of mayoral candidate Mario Cuomo...
...banners stretched across the dark, wooden interior. One read, "Ali Must Fall." The other proclaimed, "Earnie Shavers, Heavyweight Champ...
...Tonight Ali needs no introduction. But most fight fans see Shavers, with his shaved head and bearded face, as another nobody with whom Ali toys around to make easy bucks ($3.5 million for Ali, $300,000 for Shavers) and to satisfy demands that the champ defend his crown...
Shavers must give most of the credit for any recognition he has received to Ali. Ali made Shavers's glazed head nationally famous by rubbing pictures of the challenger's head on television and chiding him as "The Acorn...