Drama in the Bahamas: Muhammad Ali's last fight

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Prologue -- One: What happens in Vegas -- Two: The sweet science of fraud -- Three: The boy who learned to fight at Gitmo -- Four: The talk of Tinseltown -- Five: Searching for the fountain of youth -- Six: Doctors differ, patient continues to fight -- Seven: If you build it & -- Eight: Trouble in Paradise Island -- Nine: The financial make weight -- Ten: For whom the cowbell tolls -- Eleven: Separating the dancer from the dance -- Twelve: Farewell to the King -- Thirteen: Of gods and monsters -- Epilogue -- Sources.;On December 11, 1981, Muhammad Ali slumped on a chair in the cramped, windowless locker room of a municipal baseball field outside Nassau. A phalanx of sportswriters had pushed and shoved their way into this tiny, breeze-blocked space. In this most unlikely of settings, they had come to record the last moments of the most storied of all boxing careers. They had come to intrude upon the grief. "It's over," mumbled Ali. "It's over." The show that had entertained and wowed from Zaire to Dublin, from Hamburg to Manila, finally ended its twenty-one-year run, the last performance not so much off-Broadway, more amateur theatre in the boondocks. Prologue -- One: What happens in Vegas -- Two: The sweet science of fraud -- Three: The boy who learned to fight at Gitmo -- Four: The talk of Tinseltown -- Five: Searching for the fountain of youth -- Six: Doctors differ, patient continues to fight -- Seven: If you build it & -- Eight: Trouble in Paradise Island -- Nine: The financial make weight -- Ten: For whom the cowbell tolls -- Eleven: Separating the dancer from the dance -- Twelve: Farewell to the King -- Thirteen: Of gods and monsters -- Epilogue -- Sources.