Word: cassius
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...gonna whup him. I'm gonna give him a humiliation. I'll keep hittin' him, and I'll keep talkin'." So said Cassius Clay before meeting Ernie Terrell for the heavyweight championship. Why so angry? Well, Cassius calls himself Muhammad Ali these days because he's a Black Muslim, and Terrell did not appreciate the significance of that fact since he kept calling Cassius, Clay...
...Houston last week, Cassius finally became champion of all the world by beating Terrell, the World Boxing Association's champion, in a methodical 15-round fight that shocked quite a few sportswriters. He did not knock Terrell out-or even down. Instead Cassius carefully closed Ernie's left eye, opened a bloody gash over his right eye that later required seven stitches, and generally made mincemeat of his man. Then, with Terrell dazed and helpless, Clay screamed, "Uncle Tom nigger!" "What's my name?" he demanded again and again. "That's it, baby!" shouted Clay...
...fight showed that the only foul punches were thrown by the blinded Terrell. By week's end Clay had regained some of his old pre-Muslim composure. Appearing on NBC's Tonight Show, he was asked whether he was by any chance in love. Replied Cassius coolly: "Not with anybody else...
They're still giving Cassius Muhammad Ali Clay a raw deal. Now that he's proven his boxing ability can embarrass anyone in the ring today, the press has turned to attacking Ali's "inhumanity." We saw the closed-circuit version at the Boston Garden, and it seemed to us that the champ was in a class far above the Chicago monkey by any and every standard...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Toboggan championship in Saint-Moritz, the World Championship Auto Demolition Derby in Islip, N.Y., and a look at the folderol and fakery surrounding the Feb. 6 Cassius Clay-Ernie Terrell heavyweight champion- ship fight...