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Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...
...twilight of their careers. Past 30 years old, the watershed of many a fighting career, neither can afford a further tarnishing of the record to hasten the skid from the top. And with an awesome new champ holding court today as king of the heavyweights, tonight's Ali-Frazier is a battle of the "once-weres" not the "here-and-nows...
...Frazier, always a poor-relation titlist for most Americans after the ostracism of Ali, tonight's bout is a chance to silence once and for all those who have contended that he is not a blue-chip heavyweight. Despite his unanimous decision over Ali three years ago, Frazier has still to silence the ghost of Ali taunting him over his shoulder...
...first Ali-Frazier fight was everything it was billed to be. This one is not likely to measure up as well. Since the last contest, both fighters have shown distinct signs of slippage. Ali has lost the zip of his youth, if we are to judge from his two lackluster performances against Norton, and Frazier was pathetically outgunned against Foreman...
...longer seems able to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," and Frazier has passed that point in his career when he reigned as the most intimidating boxer to step into the ring since Liston...