Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When a couple of heavyweights get together, something's got to give. In Houston, it was Phyllis Diller as well as Buster Mathis who landed on the canvas -though ex-Champ Muhammad Ali hardly seemed to notice. He might have been expected to express a little gratitude. Even flat on her back, Phyllis was the only other person who lent a little life to the well-publicized...
...unusual action of denying bail to four Selective Service defendants. Spencer Williams of the same court was found barely qualified by the A.B.A. On the Fifth Circuit, which covers much of the South, Joe McDonald Ingraham ranks as a less than distinguished choice; as a trial judge, he gave Muhammad Ali the maximum sentence of five years and a $10,000 fine for refusing to be drafted. The conviction was later overturned...
...THERE WHEN THE MOUNTAIN COMES TO MUHAMMAD declared the billboards in Houston. The come-on was as flabby as the contenders. Muhammad Ali, the walking billboard, was so uninterested in his twelve-round bout with bulky (256 Ibs.) Buster Mathis that he trained seriously only for nine days. Ali divested himself of a bit of doggerel ("I'll do to Buster what the Indians did to Custer"), but his heart was clearly not in it. Buster, whose last fight was a humbling loss to Jerry Quarry in 1969, was out to prove that...
Ignoring cries from the crowd, Ali refused to finish off his defenseless opponent. "Yes, I deliberately held up," explained Muhammad, who won a unanimous decision. "I don't believe in killing a man just to satisfy a crowd...
Heavyweight Champ Joe Frazier stepped into some jolting verbal punches at the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, but he finished the bout without a mark on him. Many of the inmates, who were appearing with him on a TV talk show originating from the prison, were partisans of ex-Champ Muhammad Ali, whom Frazier defeated last March. "I don't think you beat him. It was the three-year layoff," somebody yelled. Ali had been in fine shape for the fight, countered Joe. "Before the layoff, I woulda beaten him up worse. He got suspended for a while. There...