Word: aly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Taubman had difficulty getting Foreman to talk, Ali was hard to stop. At the challenger's training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., Taubman vainly tried to squeeze questions into Ali's nonstop monologues. "Even at 6 in the morning when I joined him for his roadwork, he ended a three-mile run along a quiet country lane by showing me how he will beat Foreman. There, at a deserted intersection, Ali started throwing jabs and combinations at me. Not close enough to reach me, but close enough to scare me." Taubman may have flinched from Ali...
...money alone makes it a unique event. For trading punches next week, George Foreman and Muhammad Ali each stand to collect a minimum of $5 million-the biggest payday in the history of sport. If the fight goes 15 rounds, they will have earned $110,000 per minute per man. In addition to guaranteeing their wages, the government of Zaïre has put up another $12 million for the combatants' expenses and to doll up the capital city of Kinshasa...
According to the terms of the deal King negotiated, Champion Foreman gets the same basic purse as Challenger Ali. That quirk underscores the most unusual aspect of the bout. Though he won the title 20 months ago with a cruel battering of Joe Frazier, and though he has never been defeated, Foreman is still a relatively obscure figure. For one thing, he has never faced Ali the best heavyweight boxer and one of the most colorful athletes of his generation, a man who lost his title not in the ring but in a hassle over his refusal to be inducted...
Buffalo Fish. The contrasts are evident in everything the two fighters say and do, even in the things they own and the way they train. Ali's training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., overlooking Amish country, could be described as rich rustic. The $200,000 compound consists of five buildings in a log-cabin motif, including a fully equipped gym. Foreman trains in the drab mineral and gem exhibition hall at the Alameda County fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., near Oakland. For dressing quarters he uses the ladies' room...
Compared with Ali's endless repertory of wit and rhyme, Foreman's verbal acrobatics seem hopelessly square. "Do you know the Pledge of Allegiance?" he will ask someone for fun. Or Foreman may test a visitor by asking him to recite the Lord's Prayer. Ali may soon lose his claim to being No. 1 in fast footwork. Last winter, when Foreman was living in Los Angeles, he studied ballet. Though he demonstrates pliés only when photographers' backs are turned, Foreman says, "I took up ballet after seeing a dance show in Las Vegas...