(Steven Hayward) I remember listening to the first Ali-Frazier fight in 1971 on the radio—they didn't have easily accessed pay-per-view TV back then (there was some kind of closed-circuit broadcast, probably in Las Vegas casinos), and I don't know why it wasn't broadcast on one of the networks, but even so it was dramatic listening especially to the late rounds. And the famous photo of him glowering triumphantly over Sony Liston has
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