Boxing career of Muhammad Ali (English Wikipedia)

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BBC Year Book. BBC. 1966. p. 32. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019. Among the outstanding events sent "live" on Early Bird television in the testing period were: the launching and recovery of the Gemini Titan IV, the United Nations Session in San Francisco to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the United Nations Charter, the inauguration of President Johnson, and the Clay—Liston world heavyweight championship fight, watched in Britain by seven million viewers at 3.30 a.m.
"Papers by Command". Papers by Command. 23. H.M. Stationery Office: 29. 1966. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019. Other outstanding sporting events carried on radio included the Commonwealth Games in Jamaica and the World Heavyweight Championship fight between Henry Cooper and Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), which attracted an audience of twenty-one million.
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Annual Report and Accounts. Independent Broadcasting Authority. 1972–1973. p. 13. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019. And Muhammad Ali, still the greatest attraction in boxing, was seen in action against Jerry Quarry, Bob Foster and finally, in Las Vegas, against Joe Bugner — a fight which attracted an ITV audience of twenty million.
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"Daily Mirror". Longman Asia. November 1, 1974. ISBN 9789623599856. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019. 'Ali is so tired he cannot raise his hands. ' The next moment Ali raised his fists and Foreman was knocked out. The 26 million who saw the same fight with the same commentary on BBC-1 ... did not hear that line. "Yes, we cut it out, ' said a BBC man last night, 'to spare Harry Carpenter's blushes.'
"Ali-Shavers Bout Most Watched In TV History". Jet. 53 (5). Johnson Publishing Company: 54. October 20, 1977. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
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Sullivan, Russell (2002). Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times. University of Illinois Press. p. 286. ISBN 9780252027635. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
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"New Times". New Times. 3. New Times Communications Corp.: 116 1974. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019. No, if the Ali-Foreman story is just going to be about Race and Religion, forget the millions of dollars this fight can make, forget the shot in the arm this championship bout will give to boxing, forget gigundo grosses from the documentary movies of the fight, the training camps and that three-day black music festival in Zaire, forget that possible total of $100 million in revenues
Kabanda, Aloys (1977). Ali/Foreman: le combat du siècle à Kinshasa, 29–30 octobre 1974 : introduit par une étude sur la République du Zaïre (in French). Naaman. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019. Soit, pour Don King et ses amis, c'est la fin de leurs dépenses d'énergie pour trouver de l'argent nécessaire pour le coup le plus formidable jamais réalisé dans le show-boxing business et il prévoit une recette pouvant aller de 35 à 100 millions de dollars.
"Karriem Allah". Black Belt. Active Interest Media, Inc.: 35 1976. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
Stravinsky, John (1998). Muhammad Ali. Literary Express. p. 133. ISBN 9781581650457. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019. Probably the dullest event in sports history, it was watched by millions over closed-circuit television as well as by suckers in Tokyo who forked over $1,000 per ringside seat.
"BKSTS Journal". BKSTS Journal. 55. British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society: 46. 1973. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023. Retrieved April 15, 2019. In 1966 Pay TV started a 3-year experiment in transmitting films, minority appeal programmes, sporting events and local programmes for which the viewer paid for the period of time during which he was actually viewing. This varied from six shillings for a film to £4 for the entire boxing show which included Cassius Clay v. Henry Cooper.
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