Word: aly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Instead, they're calling tomorrow night's Muhammad Ali-Larry Holmes fight "The Last Hurrah", the culmination of two careers, as one fighter seeks to confirm his greatness, and the other tries to assert...
Larry Holmes, the favorite, is up against his idol, or as Ali says, his "master." As Ali grows older, his student may have surpassed him in skill and practices (as Rocky Marciano passed Joe Louis). But Holmes will never surpass Ali in one thing: drive...
...Muhammad Ali has been the underdog before, but never like this. Even as he boasts, some of the innate confidence of Cassius Clay is gone. Ali believes he has performed a "miracle" by losing 30 pounds. What he may discover, however, is that this fat was covering up an untoned body. The flab has disappeared, but that does not mean that the strength and reflexes have returned. Ali says he is in the best shape of his career. At 38, this simply cannot...
Even that shouldn't matter much, at least not to this champion. The Greatest will keep talking throughout the fight, bullying his opponent with taunts and teasers. Ali will talk, but Holmes, as his former sparring partner, is used to it. It won't faze him. Holmes himself has learned the psych game and may offer a few words of his own before the night is through...
...conference was held in the majestic 705-year-old imperial Hofburg Palace, but the atmosphere was anything but stately. At times the discussions were overshadowed by the bitter border dispute between Iran and Iraq, both OPEC members. And at one point the Iranian Oil Minister, Ali Akbar Moinfar, accused the Saudis of catering to "Western imperialists." Said one Iranian delegate after two days of bickering: "This thing is going to blow sky-high...