Word: muhammad
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...superstar heavyweight; he had an unspectacular 30-9-2 record and ranked eighth on Ring magazine's list. Dubbed "the Bayonne Bleeder" because of the more than 300 stitches he had accumulated in the easy-to-open skin above his eyes, Wepner was an implausible opponent for Muhammad Ali, boxing's great and jaded world heavyweight champ. But Ali wanted an easy fight as a warmup for his next major title bout; and a guarantee of $1.5 million helped him to make up his mind. Wepner signed for $100,000, ten times more than he had ever earned...
Chuck Wepner, the classic fall guy, managed to stand up for 14 bloody rounds with Muhammad Ale last night, until the relaxed world heavyweight champion calmly decked him with 19 seconds left in the final stanza of the world championship bout in Cleveland, Ohio...
...GREATEST, of course, would be Muhammad Ali, World Heavyweight and the People's Champion. All has been contributing heavily lately to Third World charities, and he lost one of his titles for refusing to fight in Richardson's war. Also unlike Richardson. Ali has a sense of humor, writes poetry, and is pretty. Maybe it's time for a Class Day speaker who floats like a butterfly and stings like...
Rambling Inaugural. Though many killings have been blamed on the movement, Muhammad advocated nonviolence except for self-defense. A number of the murder victims have been members of rival Muslim groups; one was Muhammad's onetime spokesman Malcolm X, who was assassinated in 1965 after he left the movement...
Many observers predicted a power struggle after Muhammad's death. But last week all seemed to be harmony as Son Wallace, 41, was proclaimed his father's preordained successor. Wallace had twice quit the faith, only to repent; while he tends to matters spiritual, others will mind the money. And after Wallace's boring, rambling inaugural speech, it seemed that no one man would fill the Messenger's shoes...