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Astonishingly, Ali seemed hardly concerned. As the fiercest puncher since Sonny Liston whaled away, Ali shouted taunts at Foreman. "You can't hurt me!" Ali yelled. "You punch like a sissy." Soon it became clear that Ali had constructed a trap. All summer and fall he had been developing granite abdominal muscles with a grueling regimen of calisthenics, spending an hour every morning hardening his gut by doing sit-ups with his legs held up at a 45 degree angle or while his limbs were pumping back and forth in a bicycle-pedaling motion. Now he was simply letting...
Check out the standings. The Mets are 23 and 32, 6 1/2 games out of first. South of the Expos and north of the Cubs, in a division where Philadelphia is out in front. Sonny Liston said he'd rather be a lamppost in Denver than mayor of Philadelphia, but this is hardly an excuse for electing Frank Rizzo. Nevertheless, Philadelphia has a batter in the top ten. The best hitter on the Mets these days is Tug McGraw...
...three years, the outcome of this fight would be no more in doubt than those sparring sessions against the Henry Coopers, Karl Mildenbergers, and Zora Foleys previously. But Ali is no longer in his prime; it has been ten years since he first wrested the title from Sonny Liston, and the one-time champ is now 32 years...
...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...
...best part of the book deals with the heavyweight boxing champions since 1956--Patterson, Johansson, Liston, Ali, Frazier, Foreman--and their biggest fights. Cosell offers inside information and for once lets athletes, rather than himself, dominate the action. He recalls a visit to Sonny Liston's training camp during which Liston and Liston's wife danced in the ring to the song "Night Train." He discusses Ali's poor conditioning before his 1972 title fight with Joe Frazier and before his bout last spring with Kenny Norton...