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A quarter century ago, The Greatest lost a bout to Father Time News
The ring was set up in a sandlot baseball stadium, surrounded by rickety bleachers and folding chairs.
Someone had forgotten the bell, so they rang a cowbell to begin and end rounds. Someone else had forgotten the key to the padlock for the gate, so the crowd waited two hours to get in.
It was Dec. 11, 1981, a quarter-century ago.
And Muhammad Ali was in denial.
``I'm going to dance all night,'' he said.
The site was the Bahamas, where Ali had been lured by a promoter with shady connections who was promising him US
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