Word: aly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...depend on the Bud Collins's, Howard Cosells and David Frosts to dissect and dessicate it today, tomorrow and next week, into just so much printed copy, dead airtime, dry commentary, insipid television footage. They couldn't do justice to good stuff if Ali gave it to them every night...
What was different, the new dimension of the new Ali that Angelo Dundee had never unveiled to us before, was that oaken-sturdy trunk on top of the old dancing legs. foreman flailed, Foreman pounded, Foreman launched everything short of inter-continental ballistic missiles, Foreman failed to move that torso from the earth it stood...
...Muhammed Ali had the radar belt, alright. And the anti-ballistic missiles. But most of all that stomach wall. At one point in the sixth, for a minute and a half, the Master Boxer even covered his face with his gloves and let the titan of punch, the heavy of heavies, the world champion as they once called him, swing at will at that stomach wall...
...course, they said Ali couldn't stay in the ring with the champ for five minutes. They had 4-1 odds on it and they were running around with color reprints of Foreman's fist obscuring Frazier's entire face...
...promoter for the Muhammad Ali - George Foreman heavyweight boxing championship predicted that as many as one billion people could watch tonight's fight...