Word: fraziers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matchmakers were counting dollars, they were also wondering when All would return to the ring for another payday-in a rematch with Foreman, perhaps, or a third fight with Joe Frazier. All talk of quitting the ring evaporated. "I'm not gonna retire for a while," declared Ali. "I might fight again, but they gotta get up $10 million before I think...
...Frazier and Bob Sfaitzer tallied for the Bruins, while Peter Harrity scored the lone Cornell goal...
...course, they said Ali couldn't stay in the ring with the champ for five minutes. They had 4-1 odds on it and they were running around with color reprints of Foreman's fist obscuring Frazier's entire face...
According to the terms of the deal King negotiated, Champion Foreman gets the same basic purse as Challenger Ali. That quirk underscores the most unusual aspect of the bout. Though he won the title 20 months ago with a cruel battering of Joe Frazier, and though he has never been defeated, Foreman is still a relatively obscure figure. For one thing, he has never faced Ali the best heavyweight boxer and one of the most colorful athletes of his generation, a man who lost his title not in the ring but in a hassle over his refusal to be inducted...
...fights. To Arum's astonishment, he was quietly outmaneuvered by Don King. Since being paroled from prison in 1971, King had put together a small stable of fighters. He had also had a run-in with Arum over TV rights in Ohio for the second Ali-Frazier fight...