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Mike's MeanderingsBy MIKE HAMILTONHuddled around ‘.he radio last night like thousands of olher fight fans around the country, I felt like I was ruhving a parL erf history. Parents are always telling their children of when they were young they would sit and listen to fights in a similarfashion. .Mohammed All, the “Louisville Lip, did it again As a matter of fact he did it for the 17th time and held on to the heavy weight crown that so many have sought and failed to gain. To many this man is a loud mouth who really isn t aboxer hut a stunt man. f .To me he is the best boxer the world has ever known. Last night in the cool night air Mohammed Ali won a unainious decision against a man that at one time broke Ids jaw. Ken Norton made an excellent showing in the third am what could- be-the last fight of feud. Norton_could.be turning to acting. Jn . one way there were two actors iii the ring each trying to winthe title role. .During the I350‘s boxing was dead for all practical purposes.When the young man from Louisville won the gold medal at theOlympics, boxing received a shot in the arm. The baby faced kid beat Sonny Liston twice and gained the right to be King of the ring, from this time on boxing looked to thta man lo revive a dead art and he did. People came to watch the big mouth get shut up and olhers came to watch him with his speed aiwJ grace lake men apart. The important tiling is that they camc.Mohammed Ali is probably one of the best ambassadors ibis country hss ever know. He has traveled the world over boxing and lecturing, sometimes on things that some call bunk but he stands up for what he believes. .Ali, now 34 years old, can't go on forever but the joy and surprises he has given us In the ring and out will. When a man makes over IS million for about an hour’s work I can’t help but- think that he is just a little bit oyer pajd. Who’s going to tell him lo give it back? On the other hand when he goes to his home town and builds a new boxing facility for the people maybe we need a few more tike him. All has made predictions since he has been fighting and has come through with some of them.1 say let him float like a butterfly and sting like a bee” as long as be can, because when he is gone there will never beanother one like him.When he fights again win or lose, wc can’t take away all the great times he lias given the people of the world and all the quotes he has given the sports writers. Unlike you and I when Mohammed Ali works, he can say he does his job better than anyone In the war Id.
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Middlesboro Daily News
Middlesboro, Kentucky, US
Wed, Sep 29, 1976
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