EGYPT: MUHAMMAD ALI SAYS HE WILL RETIRE FROM BOXING WHEN HE WINS BACK THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CROWN.

Record ID: 1063486

  • Title: EGYPT: MUHAMMAD ALI SAYS HE WILL RETIRE FROM BOXING WHEN HE WINS BACK THE WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CROWN.
  • Date: 13th March 1974
  • Summary: 1. GV & TILT DOWN Cairo Hilton 0.05 2. MCU Ali seated: 0.53 ALI: "I will be in the league for maybe about another six or seven months. I'm getting ready to meet George Foreman if he can beat Ken Norton in a couple of weeks in Caracas, Venezuela and I'm sure I'm going to beat George Foreman because I'm too fast for George Foreman and after George Foreman I'll be champion again. I may defend it once or twice but then I would love to retire because I'm getting pretty old for this game. I'm thirty-three years old and I live the severe life but only for boxing....I give boxing some twenty-one years and I'm ready to retire so after another year I should be finished with boxing. Then I'd like to devote my time to converting more Muslims in America and Preaching and spreading the word of Elijah Mohammed, our religious leader and teacher there in the American area." Initials AE/16.22 AE/16.30 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th March 1974 13:00
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  • Location: CAIRO, EGYPT
  • Country: Egypt
  • Reuters ID: LVA2AF0LKBY9NTD97VC92GZW6Z6N
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