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...even without the heavyweight title Ali was the champion. The People's Champion. The right people's champion. Ali was the symbol. The martyr. "I am God," Ali once told Joe Frazier. Frazier didn't believe...
...chance against Frazier in 1971, and lost. "A message from Allah to quit clowning, he said. "I'm big now, got more important things to do than beat people up. Got to spread the word...
...billed, in French-speaking Montreal, as le face a face historique: the historic confrontation, a pairing mentioned in the same breath as Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier, Joe Louis vs. Billy Conn, Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Jake La-Motta. In one corner, Sugar Ray Leonard, 24, the World Boxing Council welterweight champion, a virtuoso boxer with stunningly swift hands and a made-for-television smile. In the other corner, Roberto Duran, 29, the former lightweight titlist, a Panama City ruffian with manos de piedra (hands of stone) and a menacing countenance...
...worth it? Muhammad Ali is no longer the fighter he once was. A young and enthusiastic Cassius Clay, with the quick hands and feet that never touched the canvas, has become a chunky Muhammad Ali. The stomach muscles that withstood the barrages of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman now hang over his belt. The face which had never been cut, unmarked all these years, was split open in a sparring session last week. Time has taken its toll...
Jack Kent Cooke signed checks worth $5 million to underwrite the first Ali-Frazier fight in 1971. He spent upwards of $10 million for 86% of the stock of the Washington Redskins. He bought the Los Angeles Lakers ($5.2 million in 1965) and in 1967 started a National Hockey League team called the Kings in, of all unlikely places, sunny Southern California. Then he built the $16 million Forum to house his athletic baubles. But the next check will read PAY TO THE ORDER OF JACK KENT COOKE. After 18 years as sport's premier entrepreneur, Cooke, 66, last...