They were young once, and perhaps it's best to remember them that way. Magnificent men on stages equally as magnificent, they were part of the golden age of heavyweight boxing. With Muhammad Ali as the common thread, they fought in faraway places like Zaire and the Philippines, in Yankee Stadium and in the parking lot of a faux Roman palace on the Las Vegas Strip. "On any given night all of us could beat the other," George Foreman said. "I had Ken Norton's number and Joe Frazier's number. Ali had my number, and Norton had Ali's number. No one would give up." For the better part of two decades, no one did. They fought each other and, if that didn't settle things, they fought ...
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