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Still undefeated after scoring his 21st knockout in 24 fights, Frazier immediately turned to the ringside seats and, in an obviously hoked-up scene, shouted at Jimmy Ellis: "You're next!" Muhammad Ali, the man who popularized such gate-building theatrics when he was known as Cassius Clay, got in his licks, too. After the fight, the suspended Muslim minister said that until his appeal on a draft-evasion conviction is decided, "I don't want to say I'm formally retired. And they can't have a real champion until I do that or until I'm physically whipped." Amen.
* Most of the other 44 states, plus several foreign countries, are members of the World Boxing Association and recognize Jimmy Ellis as "world champion."