This week marks 50 years since Muhammad Ali’s historic return to boxing happened right here in Atlanta.
Ali famously returned to the ring in October 1970 after being banned from the sport for more than three years due to his refusal to join the military and opposition to the Vietnam War.
On Thursday’s “Closer Look with Rose Scott,” track and field Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses and Ron Brashear, a boxing historian and author, take listeners back to that night’s fight — Ali versus Jerry Quarry.
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