Word: mats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harmon on the Mat...
...freshman bouts are concerned, be sure to circle the unlimited match between Oscar DePriest and Sandy Tennant on your program; it should be the best. Two real bulls, who hit with complete abandon, will lock horns and the lumpy mat at the IAB should have numerous visitors...
...three or four rounds, the strategy seemed to work. Keep the feet planted firmly on the mat, dodge Frazier's punches, guard the kidneys with the bobbing elbows, wait for an opening, and then . . . connect. Frazier would be smoked out before he could pummel Ali's body into submission...
...lesser fighter, but Frazier's endurance would have been too much. To land enough blows on his opponent. Ali would have had to shuffle eight or ten rounds-something for which his 43 months of inactivity had left him completely unprepared. So he decided to anchor himself on the mat, to gain enough sheer strength to put Frazier to sleep with as few punches as possible. But to do that, he had to stay close and inside, which is where Frazier is at his very best...
...rematch. He probably realizes what he's done wrong. And if the next bout is far enough into the future, Ali will have time to train and get his style right, so that the next time he fights Joe Frazier he won't have to hit the mat again...