Word: regained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might have psyched himself out. Maybe he froze when he recognized that it would take some work to regain the title. Maybe this had been his plan all along, to take the money and run. Or perhaps Ali realized early in the fight that he was going to lose, and decided it would be better to go out not fighting, than fighting hard and getting knocked...
Midway through the fifth round, the man sitting next to me in Boston Garden began to shout, "Where's Ali? Where is Ali?" And that was the real question Thursday night when Muhammad Ali forgot to fight, and lost his chance to regain the heavyweight title...
...competition, Comaneci was in sole possession of first place. She went to the uneven parallel bars, where she had scored back-to-back 10s in Montreal, and started her routine with glyptic precision and dancer's grace. Suddenly as she flew over the bar, she was unable to regain her grip and fell what seemed a dangerously long way to the mat. She resumed the exercise, receiving a 9.5 score, the maximum allowed after a fall. The Soviet women, who have dominated Olympic competition since 1956 but who finished second to Rumania in last year's World Championships...
...kept fighting. Won the title from George Foreman, then invincible, in Africa. Only the second man to regain the crown. Seven years it took, but right triumphed. Now Ali held two titles, the heavyweight championship and the People's Championship. Ali risked his second heavyweight crown ten times, but he never had to defend the People's title. That was his. Ali lost to Leon Spinks--lost the heavyweight championship, that is. Then won it back, for the third time. Never before had that been done. Retired, heavyweight and People's crowns intact...
...Muhammad Ali has lost the People's Championship. He has abdicated. And that is one title he will never regain...