Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That battling hard, Muhammad All, treated the TV audience of the Flip Wilson Show to a poetic version of his March 8 fight with World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier: "Now he lands a right./What a beautiful swing!/And the punch throws Frazier/clean out of the ring./Now Frazier disappears from view./The crowd is getting frantic./ But our radars have picked him up./ He's somewheres over the Atlantic./ Who would have thought/when they came to the fight/that they would witness the launching of a black satellite...
...Frazier and Muhammad Ali will not step into the ring for another seven weeks, but a 170-lb. Hollywood talent agent who quit boxing in college to go to work is already declaring himself the winner. No matter who is named heavyweight champion of the world on March 8, Promoter Jerry Perenchio figures that he will pocket several million dollars in personal profit. "I've been training for this fight all the time that I've been an agent," says the 40-year-old Perenchio. "This is the greatest event since I've been alive...
Harvard's heavyweight Angelo Marino pinned his opponent in 53 seconds to secure the final points of the match for the Crimson. Tony Rayner and heavyweight Tom Tripp did not compete, as they were studying for exams...
Giving regular heavyweight Tom Tripp a rest, Clark Binkley proved a capable replacement in his first match of the season, as he notched...
Died. Charles ("Sonny") Liston, 38, former world heavyweight champion; of causes as yet unknown, although sheriff's deputies found puncture marks in each arm and a quarter ounce of heroin in the kitchen; in Las Vegas (his wife found his body in their home about a week after his death). "Ever since I was born, I've been fighting for my life," Liston used to say. Much of it was out of the ring. Son of an Arkansas cotton farmer, Liston in his late teens was serving a five-year sentence for a restaurant holdup when a prison...