If you were a boxing fan in the 1970s, the sport turned into a kind of ritual, especially after Muhammad Ali's definitive 1974 triumph over George Foreman in Zaire. Every few months, you'd turn on the television, listen to the grating voice of Howard Cosell as he belittled every aspect of the scheduled events, and then sit back to watch Ali effortlessly and gracefully dismiss the latest Great White Hope.…
If you were a boxing fan in the 1970s, the sport turned into a kind of ritual, especially after Muhammad Ali's definitive 1974 triumph over George Foreman in Zaire. Every few months, you'd turn on the television, listen to the grating voice of Howard Cosell as he belittled every aspect of the scheduled events, and then sit back to watch Ali effortlessly and gracefully dismiss the latest Great White Hope.…