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Show Ali: $6,000,000 By PETE FRITCHIE Muhammad Ali, with two 'bouts planned for the year already, becomes the six-million six-million dollar man June 26th in Tokyo. THE Japanese have the money and Ali is out to get some of it. The Japanese contest con-test will be a 15-round boxing-wrestling match with the National Wrestling Federation Federa-tion heavyweight champion Antonio Inoki. Inoki is said to be confident. Ali says he wants to hit while I down or up and he is a good wrestler. The world wants to know, the promoters say, whether a top wrestler can beat a top boxer. THE BIG gate is possible because both boxing and wrestling promoters will sell tickets and promote the match. But does one take it seriously? It 's hard to do-just as it's hard to take most professional wrestling entertainment enter-tainment seriously. But for six million, one can hardly blame Ali for a bit of nonsense. 1 |