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Everyone must know by now that Joe Frazier decked Muhammad Ali in the 15th round of their championship fight Monday. That's what all the headlines say, and it's the one picture every paper seems to be using. But so what? Sonny Banks and Henry Cooper each dropped Ali to the canvas once before, and they're both washed...
...Frazier by unanimous decision. And now he's the word on everyone's lips. The champion all along. There was never another who was greater. And that's pretty disappointing. No one will ever listen to another word Ali says. The jibes, the taunts, the magnificent insults have at once become ridiculous bluster...
From the very start, the whole fight seemed so wrong. Ali wasn't prancing, shuffling, dancing rings around his opponent. Instead, he stood still, leaned back on the ropes, occasionally snaring Frazier's shoulders with his arms or teasing Frazier's chin with his glove...
...should we all have to be so sad? How could we pay so much and come out with so little? The subway ride back was terrible. On the Harvard platform at Park Street everyone was talking quietly about Ali; on the Ashmont platform they were talking about Frazier. One kid on the Harvard trip was talking about Frazier, though. "That guy has got to be destroyed," he said...
...supposed to sleep tonight? Frazier has shown America that draft dodging is wrong. He has proved that humility is the best policy. He has taught us the merits of rock salt...