Word: champ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...canvas-backed middleweight contender named Bootney Farnsworth (Jimmie Walker) to give him inner and outer strength. Then they put their money on the unlikely pug to beat a nasty pro named 40th Street Black. The odds are long, but Poitier's hypnotic skills are considerable. Bootney flattens the champ in the first round. The boys clean...
While his bruises were still achingly fresh, the champ threatened once more to retire from the ring; a groggy Frazier, clutching his pride, refused to quit. Whether either man will live up to those first postfight statements remains to be seen, but there was no doubt that the fight itself was the best each boxer had fought since that epic brawl in 1971 when then Champion Frazier won a 15-round decision against Ali, inflicting a rare knockdown in the process...
Frank Gallo, the 1973 Ivy scoring champ who spent most of last season on the sideline with injuries is back for Dartmouth and the Big Green is bound to improve. Princeton, meanwhile, has nowhere to go but up, as the Tigers lost all of their league games last year. Princeton should have good depth (15 returning lettermen and some good freshmen), but again the squad might have trouble putting the ball...
Good Target. When Ali flew in, Frazier sent his 15-year-old son Marvis to heckle the champ by singing the latest Frazier recording, First-Round Knockout. Ali couldn't resist the chance to spar. Summoning Marvis to the microphone, he said, "He's better looking than his father, and he makes more sense." Marvis bravely sang on. "Hey, that's good" said Ali. "He even talks better than his father...
...stop there? Ali thinks he can capitalize on his ties with Moslem nations to provide them with the same service. The champ's charitable dreams of a mosque in Louisville, a home for the aged in Chicago and countless other projects would then be well within reach. "God is leading me to deals," Ali says...