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It had been years since Joe Frazier had been down in the boxing subterranean, perhaps since the early 1960s, when he used to run off thudding combinations on hanging sides of beef during his shift in a Philadelphia slaughterhouse. Even comical walkovers against Dave Z and Ron Stander had been for the most important title in sports: the heavyweight championship of the world. That was during the Nixon era, when Frazier, Ali, and Foreman illuminated every black-and-white Philco and Magnavox in America. Now, here he was, in Chicago, a second city for fisticuffs, late 1981, ready to slog through ten rounds against an ex-con named Floyd “Jumbo” Cummings at the International Amphitheatre on Halstead and 42nd Street, within gagging distance of the infamous Union Stockyard. The spotlight had dimmed considerably since Frazier had last been in the ring (in 1976), and he was nowhere near the VIP world of Madison Square Garden or ABC-TV.

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