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Will Packer To Produce True-Crime Podcast Series About Muhammad Ali Fight Night Heist For iHeartMedia
Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: The story of an infamous armed robbery after Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight is the subject of a new true-crime podcast series from Will Packer.The Girls Trip producer has teamed with iHeartMedia and Jeff Keating’s Georgia-based production company Doghouse Pictures for Fight Night.The series tells the story of how on the night of Ali’s defeat of Jerry Quarry, which came after he was banned from boxing for refusing to enter the military draft, hundreds of guests at an after-party were robbed at gunpoint. It looks at the party that turned into one of the largest armed robberies the country has ever seen.
