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...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...
...record shows otherwise, TIME ran a cover story on Cassius Clay when he was a glory-hungry Louisville boy without a pro title to his name (March 22, 1963). Eleven months later, he took the heavyweight championship from Sonny Listen, and has easily defended the crown six times since then. Or take Racing Driver Jim Clark. The week after the July 9, 1965 cover was written, Clark won his fourth Grand Prix of the season, ended up World Champion...
Three times, Clay knocked Mildenberger down. Three times, Mildenberger got up. Clay opened cuts under both of Karl's eyes; with the blood dripping down his chest, the German fought on, stinging Cassius with solid lefts to the head. Try as he might, the champion could not put Mildenberger away; the referee stopped the fight in the twelfth and declared Cassius the winner by a technical knockout. Heaving a big sigh of relief, richer by $200,000, Champion Clay began preparing for yet another title defense, this time against Houston's Cleveland Williams-whom Sonny Liston once described...