Word: faking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come in on me and fake to the left side of the cage, expecting me to follow," I thought. "But I won't. Or won't be able to. Then, before he realizes that he has failed to deceive me, he will have already shot on the open right side of the net. But I'll be there, just as I was all along. And the shot will bounce off my pads and fall harmlessly...
...spook the sport: "There I'll be, wearing a sheet and whispering, 'Ali-e-e-e-e, Ali-e-e-e-e.' I'll be the ghost that haunts boxing, and people will say Ali is the real champ and anyone else is a fake." Last week, at a telecast of the Frazier-Ellis fight in the Philadelphia Arena, Ali wasn't whispering. He shadowboxed in the aisle and wailed: "I want Frazier! I'm starting my comeback...
Even at Leavenworth. Nonsense or not, the presence of "the loudmouth," as he calls him, bugs Frazier. At 26, Joe is just two years younger than the champion-in-exile, and he knows that not until he defeats Ali in the ring can he completely shuck the "fake champ" label. Frazier's manager. Yancey Durham, has always told him: "Every time you're fighting, you got to think you're in there with Clay." Repeatedly asked about the former champ, whose conviction is currently under appeal, Frazier says: "I'd love to fight Clay, even...
...think that's the nature of the fake morality that we live by. We invent right and wrong, so that we seem to be making very good choices all the time-and that's a trap! Long before that, we've committed the disaster. And all these choices that we seem to be making are not choices...