Muhammad Ali : punch to the right , punch to the left ...

While across the world sports features pay tribute to Muhammad Ali on his 70th birthday, Veronica Scarisbrick brings you a conversation with our popular 'Latin Lover ' , Carmelite Father Reginald Foster focusing around the figure of this legendary boxer.

Not because Father Foster ever even met this sportsman. But rather because this longtime papal Latinist once won a prestigious prize for an essay in Latin in which he described all fifteen rounds of the 1971 Cassius Clay versus Frazier match .

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