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Even in such undistinguished company as George Chuvalo, Brian London and Henry Cooper, Karl Mildenberger hardly seemed a name to be reckoned with. Cassius Clay, for instance, couldn't even remember it. "Who is your next challenger?" somebody asked the heavyweight champion, and Clay replied: "I don't know, but he's the champion of Germany...
When Clay agreed to fight Mildenberger last week in Frankfurt, the first thing he insisted on was an impartial non-German referee. That point won, the fight figured to be a cinch. Bookies made Cassius a l-to-10 favorite, and even the promoters-with a fat TV contract in the bag-made little effort to build up the German as a challenger. "Do you think our Karl has a chance?" a Frankfurt cab driver asked one of the promoters. Sighed his passenger: "To live...
Clay took Mildenberger lightly too. He had, Cassius admitted, made a few adjustments in his boxing style to counteract Mildenberger's lefthanded attack (he had twice lost to lefthanders as an amateur). "The way I figure it," said Clay, "it will take me about three rounds to figure out Mildenberger's southpaw style, and two or three more to finish him." As it turned out, it took Clay twelve rounds to finish the stubborn German...
...Somewhere," mused Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 24, "there is a ten-year-old boy who is going to whip me." Meanwhile, Cassius is bumming around. Last week's punching bag was Brian London, a 32-year-old Blackpudlian whose face should be on posters warning, FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT. Cassius' motives for fighting London were 1) a pressing need for money (he must post a $50,000 alimony bond before Aug. 27 or go to jail), and 2) a fine regard for his personal safety. London already had been knocked out by Henry Cooper and Floyd Patterson-both...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay in a title bout against his Bum-of-the-Month, this time Britain's Brian London, live by satellite from Earls Court, London...