When a Trash-Talker Almost Ended Muhammad Ali's Comeback

Madison Square Garden, December 1970. Muhammad Ali, just months into his comeback from a three-and-a-half-year exile, steps into the ring for only his second fight back. Across from him — Oscar "Ringo" Bonavena, an Argentine wild man known for dropping Joe Frazier twice in a single fight. Nobody expected a real war. What Ali got instead nearly ended his comeback before it truly began.