Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That battling hard, Muhammad All, treated the TV audience of the Flip Wilson Show to a poetic version of his March 8 fight with World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier: "Now he lands a right./What a beautiful swing!/And the punch throws Frazier/clean out of the ring./Now Frazier disappears from view./The crowd is getting frantic./ But our radars have picked him up./ He's somewheres over the Atlantic./ Who would have thought/when they came to the fight/that they would witness the launching of a black satellite...
...Frazier and Muhammad Ali will not step into the ring for another seven weeks, but a 170-lb. Hollywood talent agent who quit boxing in college to go to work is already declaring himself the winner. No matter who is named heavyweight champion of the world on March 8, Promoter Jerry Perenchio figures that he will pocket several million dollars in personal profit. "I've been training for this fight all the time that I've been an agent," says the 40-year-old Perenchio. "This is the greatest event since I've been alive...
...words were punches, it would have been a real donnybrook. But the exchanges that took place between Muhammad All and World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier when they met to sign for their March 8 championship fight were strictly verbal. Frazier was contributing little to the buildup of the fight, Ali said, because "Joe Frazier never wrote no poems, never did no shuffles and never did no predicting. He don't look like a champion, he's flatfooted, he's got no rhythm and he ain't even pretty." Retorted Frazier: "Shut up, will you. Somebody call...
Anyone foolish enough to talk that way about today's athletes would be sued for defamation of character. The outspoken, power-conscious modern player no more accepts the daguerreotype than Muhammad Ali relates to Uncle Tom. In college and professional sports there are boycotts, strikes and lawsuits by players challenging the established order. Nothing is deader than the old locker-room adage that there is no "I" in T. . .E. . .A. . .M, or that coach equates with king. The free safety is now a freethinker. The inarticulate tackle of old now has his own TV talk show. The rangy...
...early rounds, circling his lumbering opponent and stabbing him with jolting lefts. Oscar, a 6-to-1 underdog, kept wading in, pounding away at the body until, by the eighth round, Ali was noticeably slowed. In the ninth−the round Ali predicted he would knock out Oscar−Muhammad came alive briefly, rocked Bonavena with a stiff right and then was tagged himself by a thunderous left hook. "For a moment," Ali said later, "I thought I was predictin' on myself...