Word: cassius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said Cassius Clay at his press conference in Houston last week, "are there any questions you want to ask about my fighting ability...
Pounds for Power. Cassius apparently took the threat to heart. He boxed more than 100 rounds in training, built his own weight up to 212 lbs. The added poundage, explained Trainer Angelo Dundee, was "for power"-but sportswriters scoffed at that. Some of them went so far as to call Cassius "the punchless wonder...
...only took a little more than seven minutes last night for Cassius Clay to dispose of Cleveland "Big Cat" Williams by a technical knockout at the Astrodome in Houston. Clay floored the listless 33-year-old challenger four times before the referee stopped the fight after 1:08 of the third round...
...sport remained. He made one fortune in costume jewelry, lost it in the 1946 market crash, made another in Texas oil. Now 63, Benbow is back in boxing as manager and father confessor to Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams, 33, who on Nov. 14 in Houston will fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship of the world...
Manager Benbow insists that the Big Cat will demolish Cassius; "Clay is a stinker, a bum, a clown," he says. But regardless of what happens Nov. 14, he figures that his and Williams' share of the pot will top $500,000, and he has already decided how to spend it. "I'm going to have a stable of 40 to 50 young fighters," he says. "I want them from every race and creed, from all over the world." Benbow plans to build a woodworking plant on his ranch; his boxers will spend their days turning out "the finest...