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...LOST!" Goliath, Jack Johnson, Ali... the independent villain controlled at last. Ali was aware of this line of progression long before the fight with Frazier. Consciously, by adopting Johnson maneuvers like the "anchor" punch-the punch Ali used to knock out Liston in the Lewiston, Maine fight-and by creating devices of his own-the Ali Shuffle during the fight and the poetry before it-Ali has done much to revive John-it-Ali has done much to revive Johnson (could anyone imagine The Great White Hope as anything more than a cruel joke during Floyd Patterson's reign...
...witness Robert Lipsyte's article in the Sunday New York Times Magazine) or he could have explored, by focusing on certain ramifications of the Ali-Frazier match, the sport of boxing in the United States. At the very least, Mr. Cabot could have treated Joe Frazier and Sonny Liston with some measure of the respect and sympathy they both deserve: neither are (in Liston's case, were) ogres, but human beings with dreams and desires and failings like the rest...
...Sonny Liston v. Floyd Patterson...
...Muhammad Ali v. Sonny Liston...
Muhammad Ali has been more than a moment; for a decade he has been the best boxer in the world. I can remember eight years ago huddling in a boarding school cubicle, secretly listening to the few brief minutes that Sonny Liston withstood the beautiful onslaught. We had heard stories that Liston had sent cab-drivers to the hospital for a few bucks fare, and we knew that Clay would win. Liston did not have a chance. He was slow, and he was ugly, and Clay was the King. The graceful dance, the long left, with the twist...