David Frost between Frost and Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's national security advisor and secretary of state, Frost urged Kissinger to call chess Grandmaster Bobby Fischer and urge him to compete in that year's World Chess Championship. During this call, Frost revealed that he was working on a novel. Frost interviewed heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali in 1974 at his training camp in Deer Lake, Pennsylvania before "The Rumble in the Jungle" with George Foreman. Ali remarked, "Listen David, when I meet this man, if you think the world was surprised when Nixon resigned, wait till I whip Foreman's behind." In 1977, the Nixon
Muhammad Ali vs. Larry Holmes Athletic Committee, but it was not made public at that time. Based on the report, Ali was granted a boxing license in Nevada. Ali weighed in at 217½ pounds, his lightest weight since he defeated George Foreman on October 30, 1974. There were no knockdowns, but Holmes dominated the fight and was given every round by all three judges. Holmes won through a technical knockout after Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee stopped the fight after the tenth round. According to the "Telegraph": According to Ferdie Pacheco, Ali's former ring doctor, "All the people involved in this fight should've been arrested. This