VERBAL SPARRING.—Joe Frazier (left) and Jimmy Ellis, scheduled to box for the world heavyweight championship in New York on February 16, did some verbal sparring at the Capitol in Washington after a Congressional committee had cancelled their individual exhibition bouts. Ellis challenged Frazier to make their title fight a “winner-take-all” bout. Frazier did not agree.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32219, 11 February 1970, Page 15
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55VERBAL SPARRING.—Joe Frazier (left) and Jimmy Ellis, scheduled to box for the world heavyweight championship in New York on February 16, did some verbal sparring at the Capitol in Washington after a Congressional committee had cancelled their individual exhibition bouts. Ellis challenged Frazier to make their title fight a “winner-take-all” bout. Frazier did not agree. Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32219, 11 February 1970, Page 15
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