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...vicious right hook in the thirteenth round knocked Smokin' Joe's mouthguard out of his face, and a follow-up left-right-left series left Frazier's face badly bleeding. Ali continued to pound away at Frazier's face in the next round, and the referee was finally forced to award Ali the victory. A dazed Frazier did not object to the ruling...
...good right hand. I mean, I don't like to get hit with it," admits former Heavyweight Boxing Champ Joe Frazier. The right hand belongs to Marvis Frazier, 14, Smokin' Joe's son and newest sparring partner. "I've been trying to keep him out of here for five or six years or more," says the ex-champ, who has been training at his Philadelphia gym for a Sept. 30 bout with Muhammad Ali. "But he keeps finding excuses to get down here and put gloves on." Marvis, a ninth-grader who stands an inch...
...close to $8.5 million, Frazier $4.5 million-the biggest payday in the history of sport. As if they needed a down-to-earth incentive, the two fighters shook hands on a whopping $1 million personal bet. "It will be a 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...
Muhammad Ali glowed in a white satin robe while Joe Frazier menaced in crushed velvet with "Smokin' Joe across the back. Still, the two ex-champ fighting last week in Madison Square Garden were all but lost sartorially to their fans. It was a crowd of funk-furred and metallic-threaded celebrities, including Chanteuse Bette Midler in jeans and mink, New York Knick Star Walt Frazier in a bold red and white blazer, Actor Jack Nicholson in loud pin stripes, Barbra Streisand in a sombrero, plus Senators Edward Kennedy and John Tunney in mufti. Ali Partisan John Kennedy...
...SMOKIN' IN THE BOYS' ROOM, Brownsville Station. Nine in December. Teenybop, like Alice Cooper...