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...nigger," he screamed at Norton, in a meeting room at Grossinger's hotel. "You a yellow nigger. And your movies are bad." Ali lifted a poster displaying a photo of Norton that had appeared in the Village Voice. Posed next to a sink, Norton wore only a jock...
...Norton ignored the champion, and a doctor in a yellow and black sport jacket took pulses and blood pressure; complaining that he could not do his work unless Ali quieted down. Ali signaled to his retinue, and presently his seconds and Norton's seconds were calling each other flunkies...
...When Ali gets beat, you go on welfare," cried one of Norton's people...
Fight night broke chilly, and for all of Ali's noise, only 30,000 people appeared in the cavernous stadium. There was more violence outside the ring than in. Ali still moves with a lithe beauty, but he no longer punches in flurries. He had predicted, "Norton must fall in five." After five rounds, Norton stood strong. Across the whole fight, neither staggered the other. Ali reddened Norton's face. Norton bloodied Ali's nose. Eight-year-olds would do more...
...Norton appeared to win narrowly, but a law of boxing holds that no heavyweight champion can lose by a narrow decision. Dutifully, the referee and two judges gave the fight to Ali. Dutifully, Norton's manager protested. Norton wept in frustration. Ali stole off into the night, frightened by hoodlums clawing at the windows...