Saturday, December 5th 1970.

Footage of Muhammad Ali and his opponent, the Argentinean boxer Oscar Bonavena at the weigh-in for their non-title bout scheduled for Monday, December 1970.

Bonavena chided Ali for not joining the U.S. Army by calling him a "big chicken".

Ali had been stripped of his World Heavyweight title in 1967 for refusing the draft on conscientious grounds.

His bout with Bonavena was only his second after his comeback bout against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta on October 26th 1970.

Ali won the bout by knocking Bonavena out in the 15th and final round of the match which was held at Madison Square Garden, New York City.

Ali lost his next bout, his world heavyweight title challenge of Joe Frazier's title, after 15 gruelling rounds. He regained the title which he had first won in February 1964 against Sonny Listion, in October 1974 in Zaire (now the DRC) when he knocked out George Foreman.

Bonavena was murdered in1976, by the husband of the woman with whom he was having an affair,

Source of footage: Getty Images from original footage filmed by Scripps - WPIX, New York.

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