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Ali had striven mightily to turn back the clock, coming out of a two-year retirement to train harder than ever. Since his defeat of Leon Spinks in the fall of 1978, Ali had ballooned to a blubbery 254 Ibs. But after he signed (for $8 million) to fight Holmes...
But Ali kept fighting. Won the title from George Foreman, then invincible, in Africa. Only the second man to regain the crown. Seven years it took, but right triumphed. Now Ali held two titles, the heavyweight championship and the People's Championship. Ali risked his second heavyweight crown ten times...
Ali first won the heavyweight title in 1964 on a seventh-round knockout of Sonny Liston. Stripped of the crown in 1967 after he refused to serve in the military, he regained it in his eight-round knockout of George Foreman in the Kinshasa, Zaire, "Rumble in the Jungle" of...
6 Class Day Speaker Jerry van Dyke urges graduating members of the Class of '79 "do whatever you want to do as long you don't lose your sense of humor." Van Dyke--a last-minute stand-in for Leon Spinks, who misses the ceremony because of what his manager...
Ali exulted in a victory that was as multidimensional as himself: over Leon Spinks, over encroaching age, over his need to leave an enduring mark on his sport-three times a champion in 14 years. The new champ laughed with reporters in postfight interviews: "What do you think of this...