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Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...
...FIGHTERS concerns the first Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier bout in March 1971 and shows every moment of every round, recorded by a battery of cameras stationed all over Madison Square Garden. With only this fight footage, meticulously edited, Director William Greaves would have had a fine sports film. What lifts The Fighters out of the special-interest category is the first hour of documentary on the preparations for the match. The fighters, the promoters, the managers, the hangers-on, all speak a kind of spiked Odets chatter that makes the movie look and sound like...
...confidently expects to tap a huge audience that others are not reaching. He thinks that most major publications here are aimed "at the rich and the intellectual." "Daily newspapers are limited and local," he says, "and national magazines have to depend on advertising dollars and the opinions of Madison Avenue." He wants the Star to lean almost solely on circulation revenue provided by readers willing to pay a quarter at newsstands or supermarkets...
Biggest Prize. As they prepare for their rematch at Madison Square Garden on Monday, Ali, 32, and Frazier, 30, know that time is running out for both of them. Perhaps the fight will be as dramatic as their last clash in 1971, but by any measure the stakes are not. Frazier is no longer the defending heavyweight champion of the world; he is defending little more than his pride because George Foreman took away his title with a surprise knockout last January in Jamaica. Ali, after being beaten by Frazier three years ago and by Ken Norton last March...
Never have 36 minutes of fisticuffs meant so much to the careers of two men as the 12 rounds of mayhem scheduled for tonight mean to Muhammed Ali and Joe Frazier. Because, for one of the pugilists in tonight's Madison Square Garden match--the one who doesn't come away with the winner's laurel--the end of the boxing road will be at hand...