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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, October 1,1975
Ali pounds out
14 round TKO
MANILA (UPI) - Pounding
Joe Frazier into a lumpy pulp
Muhammad Ali kept his world
heavweight title Wednesday
with a bloody, bruising 14th
round technical knockout.
“I still reign supreme,”
shouted Ali. “I told you I was
the greatest. Didn’t I tell you I
was superior?”
With still one round to go,
before a sellout crowd of 25,000
at the Philippine Coliseum and
a worldwide television audien
ce, Frazier’s manager-trainer,
Eddie Futch, threw in the towel
for his badly battered battler.
“Frazier couldn’t see," Futch
said referring to the challen
ger’s puffed up eyes, the right
one almost completely shut by
Ali’s blows. “Joe had two bad
rounds in a row and had we
continued we could have been
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seriously hurt.”
At that point, Ali agile and
alert, was leading in the cards
of the three Filipino fight
officials. Referee Carlos Padilla
Jr., a former child movie actor,
had him ahead 66-60, Judge
Alfredo Quiazon put him at 67-
62 and Larry Nadayag scored it
66-62 for Ali.
Ali, unmarked except for a
slight swelling on his right eye,
praised Frazier when talking
with reporters after the fight.
"He’s great, greater than I
thought,” Ali said, with only a
towel wrapped around his neck
and padding around on his
socks. "If I took the punches he
took, I would have quit long
ago.”
Ali said he was so tired and
sore all over, all he wanted to
do was do nothing for the next
week except rest.
After fighting Ali toe to toe in
the first 11 rounds, Frazier
simply wilted and became an
easy prey for the champion’s
vicious combination left hooks
and right straights. At the end
of the 14th round, Futch
signaled the referee to stop the
fight.
Ali described his second
victory over Frazier as the
toughest of his three with
Frazier. And it also took its toll
on him. He fell on his back
from sheer exhaustion and the
press of people who crowded
him in the ring after he won.
Ali weighted 241% pounds,
nine pounds heavier than
Frazier’s 215% at the official
weighin and the champion said
he need the extra poundage for
extra energy.
Watching the fight were
Philippine President and Mrs.
Ferdinand E. Marcos. Promot
ers said the attendance and the
gate receipts set records. The
match was televised to more
than 60 countries, including the
Soviet Union which linked up
for satellite coverage for the
first time.
Ali said if he ever fought
again, it would be his last and
the challanger would be the
winner of an elimination bout
between Norton and George
Foreman, the man he beat for
the title last year in Zaire.
But in another statement, he
said he was willing to give
Frazier a return match.
Ali said he wants to quit
while he is relatively, undefeat
ed and wealthy so he could
devote himself fulltime to being
an Islamic preacher and
philantrophist.
“I wanna get out now while
I’m well invested. I have 3 to 4
million dollars in government
bonds. I have a nice family. I
have a nice farm. I have a nice
mansion. I’ll be working oh my
ministry,” he said.
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Challenger Joe Frazier staggers after receiving a hard right to his head from champion
Muhammad Ali in the 14th round of their 15-round title fight. AU won on a TKO shortly after
this punch. (UPI)
★★★★★★★★
SPORTS
★★★★★★★★
Robbins rolls
571 series
Annette Robbins bowled a 211
game and a 571 series, Sylvia
Crumbley had a 212 and a 561
and Betty Parkerson rolled a
200 game and a 562 series last
night in the Dundee Ladies
League.
Other leading bowlers were:
Susie Clark 197 and a 539,
Linda Hill 193 and a 501, Mary
Blanton 184, Fab Manning 178,
Emmie Fancher 176, Betty
Shackleford 175, Linda Durham
172, Bernie Zuberer 168, Mary.
Reed 166, Margaret Newton 165,
Brenda Ogletree 163, Ella
Maddox 163, Shirley Beeland
163 and Linda Crisp 162.
Team One beat Team Nine 4-
0, Team 10 beat Team Two 3-1,
Team Five defeated Team
Three 4-0, Team Seven stopped
Team Four 3-1 and Team Six
beat Team Eight 4-0.