Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just a nigger," said Ali's man, Drew Brown...
Fight night broke chilly, and for all of Ali's noise, only 30,000 people appeared in the cavernous stadium. There was more violence outside the ring than in. Ali still moves with a lithe beauty, but he no longer punches in flurries. He had predicted, "Norton must fall in five." After five rounds, Norton stood strong. Across the whole fight, neither staggered the other. Ali reddened Norton's face. Norton bloodied Ali's nose. Eight-year-olds would do more...
Norton appeared to win narrowly, but a law of boxing holds that no heavyweight champion can lose by a narrow decision. Dutifully, the referee and two judges gave the fight to Ali. Dutifully, Norton's manager protested. Norton wept in frustration. Ali stole off into the night, frightened by hoodlums clawing at the windows...
...exactly your classic fight," I said to Harold Conrad, a boxing scholar, engaged by Ali as a personal aide...
...Ali sees his future in evangelism. He would become a cross between Billy Graham and William Jennings Bryan. To do that, to take care of his children and his divorces, to work his private charities, he has calculated that he needs $83,000 a month. That is why he has gone on boxing with eroded skills. That is why, his mind heavy with death, he shouted nigger into the face of a decent man like Kenny Norton...