Word: alie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muhammed Ali retained his World's Heavywight Boxing Championship by scoring a technical knockout over Joe Frazier in the fourteenth round of their scheduled fifteen-round grudge match in Manila, the Phillipines...
...vicious right hook in the thirteenth round knocked Smokin' Joe's mouthguard out of his face, and a follow-up left-right-left series left Frazier's face badly bleeding. Ali continued to pound away at Frazier's face in the next round, and the referee was finally forced to award Ali the victory. A dazed Frazier did not object to the ruling...
...decision broke up what had been an incredibly close fight. Ali seemed to have won the first four rounds, but then Frazier suddenly became relentlessly agressive, and came back in the next seven rounds. Smokin' Joe seemed to tire in the twelfth round, and the momentum again shifted back to Ali...
...stop there? Ali thinks he can capitalize on his ties with Moslem nations to provide them with the same service. The champ's charitable dreams of a mosque in Louisville, a home for the aged in Chicago and countless other projects would then be well within reach. "God is leading me to deals," Ali says...
...first he must punch his way past the man he calls "the Gorilla." Frazier's manager, Eddie Futch, insists that is easier said than done. "Ali's not 25 years old any more. He can only go four rounds on his toes, and eventually he'll have to stand and fight." Perhaps not. "I'll be sidestepping and dancing, pacing myself," says Ali. "When he takes two steps forward, I'll take three back." He also plans to unveil a new weapon, "the acupunch." Not that he thinks he needs it. "Frazier...