Word: cassius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cassius Marcellus Clay has amply demonstrated the biggest mouth in boxing. Tonight before a sell-out crowd of 13,000 in Madison Square Garden, Clay is a 17-5 favorite to back up his boasts with a victory over highly ranked heavyweight Doug Jones...
...clowns in three rounds," intoned Heavyweight Cassius Clay. True to his word, it was in the third that Clay's foe hit the hay. But the boastful young bard, although he slugs hard, must face Sonny Listen some time. And while he can't rhyme. Sonny's right is sublime-and each doggerel...
...again, I've said it before, Archie Moore will fall in four, Cassius Marcellus Clay's problem is that nobody wants to take him seriously. Now they may have to. Last week in Los Angeles, the cocky young Kentuckian, known to his friends as the Louisville Lip, made good his brag. Halfway through the fourth round, he knocked out tired old Archie Moore, whose age (either 45 or 48) and 220 fights should have put him in retirement long ago. The victory did something for Clay's prestige as the seventh-ranking heavyweight (Moore, after all, once...
...also the double greatest cause I took him out in four just like I said. If it were up to me I'd fight Liston right now. I'll go put on my trunks and fight him right now." Still another poem recited by yon Cassius...
...Cassius Clay knocked out Archie Moore exactly when he predicted he would--in the fourth round of their scheduled 12-round heavyweight fight last night. By knocking out Moore, 30 years his senior, Clay became a top contender to meet Sonny Liston after his return bout with Floyd Patterson...