Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shavers was the aggressor throughout the fight, using hard rights to Ali's midsection and head that stunned the champ, but the 33-year-old challenger could not finish off Ali after landing the initial blow...
...Camp LeJeune. DiNicola entered a series of "smokers." Marine slang for intramural boxing tryouts. Never losing a fight, he went on to become the intramural champ...
...banners stretched across the dark, wooden interior. One read, "Ali Must Fall." The other proclaimed, "Earnie Shavers, Heavyweight Champ...
Tonight Ali needs no introduction. But most fight fans see Shavers, with his shaved head and bearded face, as another nobody with whom Ali toys around to make easy bucks ($3.5 million for Ali, $300,000 for Shavers) and to satisfy demands that the champ defend his crown...
...training camp, Shavers ended each workout with a medicine ball drill that brought to a boil his intense determination to be the next champ of the world...