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PORTLAND OBSERVER Volume 8 No. 40 Section II Thursday, October 5,1978 THE HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION GREATEST OF ALL TIME » r • ». ife ’ • -X» T 'i >» V . -..A t, i 4;*f, y NUMBER 1 - 1964 - Ali defeated Sonny Liston as a twenty-two year old Olympic Gold Medal winner, to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World. NUMBER 2 - 1974 - Ali defeated George Foreman to regain the Championship. His crown had been removed for his courageous stand against the Vietnam # A War and his refusal of draft induction but he was exonerated by the Supreme Court. NUMBER 3 - 1978 - Ali defeated Leon Spinks to regain the title won by Spinks in an earlier bout. He was the first to win the Heavyweight Championship three times and will forever be the People's Cham pion.