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...indicated that "the draft thing and the black-white struggle and everything else that I'm involved in had to have some effect on the decision." But he promised to minimize such influences in the projected Frazier rematch. "Next time we'll try to fix it where there's no doubt; because he must...
...seen some men trying to flirt with her. He later warned them, "Boy, you'd rather be caught in Vietnam with a BB gun.") Ali made a clear distinction as to which black man can fight the best and why. He made a poetic predic-tion for the Frazier rematch, "... then Ali lands with a right, what a beautiful swing/ and the punch lifts Frazier clean out of the ring/ ... Who have thought when they came to the fight/ That they would witness the launching of a colored satellite...
When asked why he had lost the last fight, and what adjustments he intended to make for the rematch, Ali responded, "I played with him about three rounds-agitating and clowning and showing the critics... signifying... [But] anybody that saw the film knows that he took a terrible whooping.... I hope he's not seriously hurt." Upon the demand of the crowd Ali gave a demonstration of the Ali Shuffle, saying that although he had not used it in the first fight, Frazier would see it-if he can-in the rematch...
...victory will without a doubt leave the Middies seeded first in Saturday's Eastern Sprint Championships at Worcester. The winning crew, which averaged 6'3", 188 pounds, will now have to avoid a mental letdown before its sprint rematch...
Next time? In keeping with the old boxing adage that one good fight-especially one with the richest gate ever -deserves another, the promoters last week were already stumping for the seemingly inevitable Frazier v. Ali rematch. Garden Matchmaker Teddy Brenner can see it now. "The next one," he says gleefully, "will be called 'Ali's Revenge...