Word: rematch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time will come this weekend, when the underwater aces face a rematch against the Bulldogs at the Yale Invitational Tourney in New Haven...
Third Encounter. The clowning stopped when Ali and Frazier faced off in the humid Philippine Coliseum before 25,000 spectators and an estimated 700 million closed-circuit and television viewers in some 65 countries. In their third encounter (Ali won a rematch in 1974), the two heavyweights were not fighting for the title alone; there was still the issue of personal supremacy to settle. Ali, at 224½ lbs., came out as the boxer of patience and craft; Frazier, 9 lbs. lighter, was the slugger of bull-like impulse and strength...
This afternoon in the I.A.B. pool, the highly-talented but underfunded aquamen will swim head-on into the watery fray in an exhibition rematch against league rival Yale...
...thrilla in Manila," proclaimed Ali. If he gets by Smokin' Joe, Ali promises to fight George Foreman and Ken Norton, and apparently Foreman can hardly wait. Last week his manager, Leroy Jackson, was in Manila to propose a super multimillion-dollar package for an Ali-Foreman rematch, featuring, as sideshows, a golf tournament with Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller, and a tennis extravaganza that would include Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert. Trouble is, nobody but Foreman has as yet signed...
...fifth when Ali fights European Champion Joe Bugner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the climax of a closed-circuit tripleheader that will also include light-heavyweight and middleweight title fights in New York City. In the fall King hopes to cap his promotions with a $12 million Ali-Joe Frazier rematch, probably in the Philippines. That would bring the total take of King ring deals to more than $30 million. "He's done impossible things," says Ali. Adds King in his booming baritone: "Right now my success is phenomenal...