Word: muhammad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muhammad Ali was flabbergasted. Oscar Bonavena, the hulking, beetle-browed Argentine with only a halting command of English, was beating the Louisville Lip to the surly quip. Calling Ali a "black kangaroo" and a "maricon" (faggot), Bonavena boasted that he would knock out the deposed champion in Round 11. "Imagine that!" exclaimed Ali. "Him predictin' on me!" At their prefight physical, Oscar tweaked Ali's cheek. Ali started to lunge at Oscar. "Why you so nerbous?" said the Argentine. "You afraid Oscar and his beeg muscles?" Ali: "You're not good enough to touch me." Oscar...
...Unbeaten Muhammad Ali came alive in the waning minutes of the 15th round and stopped crude but, strong Oscar Bonavena on three knockdowns in an amazing finish at Madison Square Garden Monday night...
First he was Cassius Clay, the lovable loudmouth who was going to "whup the world." Next he was the mysterious Muhammad Ali, spouting Black Muslim rhetoric. Then, slapped with a draft-evasion conviction and stripped of his title, he became the self-styled "champion of the people," a martyr to the black cause. Last week, 3½ years after his last professional fight, he was Cassius Clay again -at least in the ring where, shuffling, stabbing and slugging as of old, he pummeled Irishman Jerry Quarry into swift and violent submission...
...right to define it. Non-interference with the rights of others is a vague, dreamy doctrine which is always breaking down and is, perhaps, unwise. Genocide upon the Indians may have been good and necessary for the blooming of a world-improving, necessary good in white America. Elijah Muhammad, Golda Meir, and Carleton Putnam may be "racists" yet rightly and justifiably so. It may be a failure of our spirit that we do not see as just all that necessarily accompanies evolving good. Bio-religious and religio-patriotic fervor are probably more life-giving than life-destroying, and leveling always...
...bard of the boxing world, Cassius Clay, otherwise known as Muhammad Ali, last week made it back into the ring, although still barred from professional competition for evading the draft. The former world heavyweight champion won all three of his short exhibition bouts in Atlanta, but three years of battling the courts had obviously taken its toll. The speed of his punches and his Ali-shuffle were somewhat slowed, as was his tongue. Admitted the usually loquacious Clay afterward: "I'm not in shape...