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Muhammad Ali was flabbergasted. Oscar Bonavena, the hulking, beetle-browed Argentine with only a halting command of English, was beating the Louisville Lip to the surly quip. Calling Ali a "black kangaroo" and a "maricon" (faggot), Bonavena boasted that he would knock out the deposed champion in Round 11. "Imagine that!" exclaimed Ali. "Him predictin' on me!" At their prefight physical, Oscar tweaked Ali's cheek. Ali started to lunge at Oscar. "Why you so nerbous?" said the Argentine. "You afraid Oscar and his beeg muscles?" Ali: "You're not good enough to touch me." Oscar...
...twenty-five or thirty rounds, though tickets to a good fight now cost as much as seats for a ballet, when Italian legions scream "Nino!" a gut-level nationalism is present; and when Clay returns to floor a dumb (if scrappy) Irish fighter like Quarry, and a stronger Oscar Bonavena, the crowd roars for him not only as a boxer, but as a surrogate warrior fighting for appealing politics and style...
Unbeaten Muhammad Ali came alive in the waning minutes of the 15th round and stopped crude but, strong Oscar Bonavena on three knockdowns in an amazing finish at Madison Square Garden Monday night...
Weary and desperately trying to hold off the bull-like rushes and lunges of the South American heavyweight champion from Argentina, Ali suddenly nailed the strong-jawed Bonavena with a solid left hook to the jaw that dropped Oscar for a count...
...capacity crowd in the Garden roared as Ali followed with a sharp right left combination to the jaw which again felled the gutty Bonavena for a count of four. As he was getting the mandatory eight-count, Bonavena's corner tossed a towel into mid-ring...