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MARCH 8, 2001
All vs. Frazier:
Still ‘Fight of the Century’ 30 years later
®Monday, March 8,
1971 a date forever.
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By Timothy Cox
AUGUSTA FOCUS Staff Writer
I can remember it like it
was yesterday. It was March
8, 1971 — a day that will for
ever live in American sports
infamy. That was the Monday
night Smokin’Joe Frazierand
Muhammad Ali met in the
ring for their epic match billed
as“The Fight ofthe Century.”
Thirty yearslater, thisfight
is still regarded as the pre
mier pugilisticmatch-up of all
times. The fight was intrigu
ingbecause Alj, still known by
many as Cassius Clay or the
“Louisville Lip,” had yet to be
defeated. Coming offhisthree
year exile for refusing tohonor
his draft notice for the U.S.
Army and a possible Vietnam
tour, Ali had become a hero
for many — a dishonorable
American for others. For
Frazier, the Beaufort, S.C.
native who later moved to
Philadelphia, he, like Ali, was
Fernbank constructs world’s largest dinosaur
ATLANTA
After a recent visit from
President George W. Bush to
the Fernbank Museum of Na
tional History on Thursday,
March 1, 2001, construction
of the world’s largest dino
saur, Argentinosaurus, began
to take shape beside the 47-
foot-long Giganotosaurus,
best known for dethroning
T.rex as the world’s largest
meat-eating dinosaur. The
arrival of the 120-foot-long
Argentinosaurus marks the
third installation stage of the
new permanent exhibition
“Giants of the Mesozoic” at
Fernbank.
Hammonds House Galleries and Resource Center of
African American Art, 503 Peeples Street SW, will be
holding a public opening exhibit reception and artist
talk for “Women in Mourning and Outrage” on Sun.,
Mar. 11, from 3 to 5 p.m. Guest speaker will be Dr. Cora
Marshall, assistant professor of art of Central Connecti
cut State University. The multimedia exhibition, sched
uled to run through June 24, grew out of the reaction of
100 women who participated in a performance action
near the UN after the acquittal of four N.Y. police offic
ers that fired 41 bullets at an unarmed 22-year-old West
African, Amadou Diallo, as he took his wallet out to
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Thirty years ago, Madison Square Garden was the
scene for the “Fight of the Century” featuring
Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
an Olympic champion (1964),
but never received the notice
his opponent still enjoys.
Thesold-out fight took place
When Argentinosaurus is
complete, the exhibition will
include most of the major de
sign components from the
original concept - enveloping
visitors.in a prehistoric scene
that captures the surprise at
tack of Giganotosaurus upon
the massive Argentinosaurus,
astwo Anhanguera pterosaurs
with 19-foot wingspans ob
serve from above. Later this
spring, the final components
of “Giants of the Mesozoic”
willarrive, including a flock of
smaller pterosaurs with four-.
foot wihgspans and a dinosaur
trackway. As visitors walk
around and beneath the mas
at the old Madison Square
Garden in the heart of Man
hattan and attracted the
world’s top entertainers, ath
sive dinosaurs, they will en
counter footprints and trace
fossils within the trackway to
reveal other animal species
and the variety of plant life
found 90 million years ago
during the Mesozoic Era.
The exhibition team will
assemble the dinosaur in pub
lic view within the Great Hall,
a three-level, 86-foot-tall
atriumlocated in the center of
the museum. The scene con
tinues to transform into a 90-
million-year-old snapshot of
daily encounters during the
Mesozoic Era. The main con
struction area will be re
stricted to the construction
letes, actors and political fig
ures. I can still hear the late
Howard Cosell promoting the
fight on ABC-TV as only he
could. Although the fight was
available nationally on what
was known as closed-circuit
TV, typically, only major cit
ies had venues where the
broadcast could be viewed.
Therefore, I, like scores of
sports fans across the nation,
listened to the blow-by-blow
account on the radio as the
announcer described what
happened in the ring after
each round. Both fighters
earned athen-unprecedented
$2.5 million purse, per man.
So, after all these years, we
remember the epic 15-round
dramaticfight that ended with
Frazier knocking Ali down,
breaking his jaw with a tre
mendous left hook and send
ing the popular champ to a
first-time defeat. Even though
he suffered a terrible beating
by Ali throughout the compe
tition, Frazier had finally
earned the respect due an
undisputed, undefeated heavy
weight champion. Therefore,
we shall never forget Ali vs.
Frazier I ... The Fight of the
Century ... March 8, 1971.
crew but will be visible from
all levels of the museum via
the museum’s web cam at
www.fernbank.edu/museum.
“Giants of the Mesozoic” is
a collaborative project among
Fernbank Museum of Natural
History; the Museo Carmen
Funes in Plaza Huincul, Ar
gentina, the municipality of
Plaza Huincul; the govern
ment of Neuquen Province,
Argentina; and Dinosaur Pro
ductions, Inc.
“Giants of the Mesozoic” is
included with general admis
sion to Fernbank. The mu
seum is located at 767 Clifton
Rd., NE.
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The Arts for All Gallery, 57 Forsyth St., Suite Rl, is
exhibiting “Alabama’s Creative Power” through April
6. The exhibit brings the work of four Alabama-based
artists to the viewing public: Pamelia Nelson, Chris
tine Lanier, Fred Marchman and Barbara Gallagher.
Each of these four artists created their art in a unique
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