Word: chuvalo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cassius Clay will defend his title in Toronto, March 29; but it will probably be against George Chuvalo instead of Ernie Terrell...
When he climbed into the ring against Canada's George Chuvalo last week, Ernie Terrell, 26, was under the impression-or delusion-that he was heavyweight champion of the world. The World Boxing Association, which is still sort of peeved at Cassius Clay, had told Ernie so last March. But the president of the W.B.A. is one James Deskin, who also happens to be executive secretary of the boxing commission in Las Vegas-where money talks and where Clay will fight Floyd Patterson Nov. 22. So there, before Terrell's wondering eyes at Toronto's Maple Leaf...
Poor Ernie. Even his best friends won't tell him. By rough count, Terrell hit Chuvalo 400-odd times smack in the face over 15 rounds last week-with a left jab that was curiously described by sportswriters as "savage," "snapping," "a bullwhip" and "the finest jab any heavyweight has shown since Joe Louis." Curiously, because Chuvalo didn't even blink. The best blow of the night was a butt by the Canadian that opened up a one-inch gash over Terrell's left eye. "He butted me deliberately," Terrell complained afterward. "He stepped on my toes...
...arena had not seen the knockout punch; neither had the 500,000 others watching on closed-circuit TV. "Fix! Fix! Fix!" they chanted. "Fake! Fake! Fake!" At ringside, Joe Louis conceded that Clay had landed a right, "but it wasn't no good." Snapped Canadian Heavyweight George Chuvalo: "It's a phony, a real phony." Even Cassius was confused. "I think I hit him with a left hook and a right cross," he said. "But I want to see the video tape...
...kidneys was covered with bloody welts. "I kept telling myself, 'You can't be knocked out, you can't be knocked out,' " he said afterward. He talked longingly about a title fight with Clay and another shot at Liston, and chided sportswriters who predicted that Chuvalo would put him down as soon as he tapped him on his china chin. "I proved that I could take a punch much better than you gentlemen gave me credit for," he said. "I would say that I am deserving of a chance to fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight...