- Title: MUHAMMAD ALI AND FRAZIER CROSS VERBAL SWORDS BEFORE REMATCH IN MANILA.
- Date: 27th August 1975
- Summary: 1. SV & CU Frazier surrounded by newsmen 0.15 2. CU poster advertising fight 0.17 3. CU Frazier With Fight Promoter don king Behind him 0.37 4. SCU Mohammad Ali and entourage wearing t-shirts inscribed Manila Gorilla 0.47 5. SV Ali being restrained from sparring with Frazier before he leaves 1.05 6. CU Promoter don King smiling 1.12 TRANSCRIPT: MACMILLAN: "It was the truer ... (INDISTINCT) ... of champion and challenger that drew the crowds to Reno half a century ago -- Johnson and Jeffries -- and only a heavyweight bout between dempsey and willer ten years later could have filled the hotels and rooming houses in Toledo. Now decades have passed and pure hokum is the attraction. If you missed Toledo or Reno, scrape up eighteen hundred forty two dollars 'cos that's the round trip fare to Manila to get in on what promoter Don King modestly calls The saga of Our Lifetime. The teaser was played out in the posh Manhattan restaurant today. We were promised a luncheon with Joe Frazier but barely had Smokey Joe arrived scarlet suited than Muhammad Ali shock troops came whooping in wearing t-shirts with a glittering tribute to Manila Gorilla. Ali got as much as from ten miles of roadwork. Frazier really doesn't like it much but even for the straight man's pay of four million dollars it's like a marriage. Murmured Joe, 'I understand it all ). Ali came and left in a frenzy -- the saga of our lifetime is going to put an estimated eight million into his pocket. Pocket. Promoter don King was laughing the whole time. Does he know something we don't?" Initials BB/2000 AB/MR/BB/2050 TELERECORDING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: MANHATTAN, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES AMERICA
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