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...business is boxing. In less than two years, King has put together four heavyweight championship bouts, including the $10 million George Foreman v. Muhammad Ali extravaganza in Zaïre last fall. Next Monday he will add a fifth when Ali fights European Champion Joe Bugner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the climax of a closed-circuit tripleheader that will also include light-heavyweight and middleweight title fights in New York City. In the fall King hopes to cap his promotions with a $12 million Ali-Joe Frazier rematch, probably in the Philippines. That would bring the total take of King...
...money beyond the means of individuals or even corporations, King has made his deals with governments. Shrewd enough to realize that championship bouts featuring Ali are the kind of promotion that developing nations like to stage, King has courted heads of state in Cairo, Tehran, Lusaka (Zambia), Manila and Kuala Lumpur. "The jet lag is so bad," he says, "I eat breakfast 24 hours...
...committee invited Ali in May and he accepted, but when his manager reminded the heavyweight champion that they would have to be in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by today to begin training for his next defense of his title, Ali had to back committee...
...agreed to be Class Day speaker two weeks ago, said he was told by his manager. Herbert Muhammud, that he will have to leave for Kuala Lampu. Malaysia by June 9. He is defending his title there on June 28 against Joe Bugner...
...time he reached Jakarta on the last stop of his five-nation, eleven-day good-will mission to Southeast Asia, Tanaka had already encountered an embarrassing amount of hostility. His effigy had been burned in Bangkok (TIME, Jan. 21), and on the day of his departure from placid Kuala Lumpur, a handful of activists at the University of Malaysia had staged an auto-da-fe of a puppet labeled Tanaka. But the stop last week at Indonesia was the worst...