Word: tonight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tonight Earnie Shavers squares off against Muhammad Ali in a World Heavyweight Championship fight at Madison Square Garden. Challenger Shavers predicts an easy victory over the reigning champion...
...Tonight Ali needs no introduction. But most fight fans see Shavers, with his shaved head and bearded face, as another nobody with whom Ali toys around to make easy bucks ($3.5 million for Ali, $300,000 for Shavers) and to satisfy demands that the champ defend his crown...
...Tonight, after eight years of looking for fights on two continents and being avoided by the "name" fighters, the crown is there for the taking. Lucca said, "Someone was always telling us to beat one more guy but nobody would fight us. Foreman refused us, Norton said he hoped he would never fight Earnie. Earnie was too dangerous...
...Maybe tonight Shavers will take the mountain from Muhammad...
...only certainty in the A.L. Eeast entering tonight's games is that there are ten games left, and that someone, in the next week and a half, will emerge as the winner...