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...second round began much the same as the first with Holmes methodically attending to his business and Ali satisfied with simply skirting the champion's blows. Midway though the round, Drew Brown Bundini, Ali's spiritual mentor, began to shout, "You got to get off on him, champ...
...this point Bundini's voice rang out again as he cried, "Do something, champ, do something...
...world champion was Muhammad Ali. Ali's majordomo. Drew Bundini, who captured the ring essence of Ali in his famous exhortation to him to "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," had an equally elegant explanation of why Ali, stripped of his title for refusing to be drafted, retained the status of world champion. "The world," Drew Bundini said, "is a black shirt with a few white buttons...
...championship of the world. He out-pointed a boxer, even dropped him for a four-count in the fifteenth, and walked out of the ring with a sense of personal satisfaction from his highly personal victory. But as for the championship of the world, Frazier never had a chance. Bundini Brown, Ali's assistant trainer and confidant, has said, "The world is a black shirt with a few white buttons." For outside of some of the board rooms, the veterans'lodges and the other button-down watering holes on the button of white America, Muhammad Ali a/k/a Cassius Clay a/k/a...
...back on the scene in force, is living his usual abnormal life. At his training camp in Miami Beach, he heads an entourage that looks like a touring vaudeville act. There is Bundini, the cornerman and personal mystic who calls him "the Blessing of the Planet"; a handler whose sole job is to comb Ali's hair; assorted grim-faced Muslim operatives; imperturbable Angelo Dundee, his trainer since 1960; Norman Mailer; Actor Burt Lancaster; Cash Clay Sr. in red velvet bellbottoms, red satin shirt and a plantation straw hat; the Major, a high roller from Philly who tools around...