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Cassius Clay could not floor, stagger, seriously hurt challenger George Chuvalo in Toronto last night, but the heavyweight champion jabbed his way to a unanimous 15-round decision anyway...
...Chuvalo, a plodding Toronto dogfighter has never yet been knocked off his feet, never took a backward step and drew repeated cheers from the partisan crowd as he battered away at Clay's body while catching a steady barrage of pot-shots in his own face from Clay's left...
...exciting bout with a plenitude of punches for the 9,000 spectators at Maple Leaf Gardens and the 38-closed-circuit audiences who saw the Louisville champion extended 15 rounds for the first time. Chuvalo landed solid blows with the left to Clay's body and jaw in several rounds, but Clay outpunched the Canadian by a wide margin and drew blood from cuts around his puffed eyes...
...fifth round Chuvalo had forced the champ to wobble momentarily against the ropes after absorbing a hard combo to the jaw. By the start of the sixth, Clay had cut his clowning and disdainful attitude toward the challenger...
Clay scored heavily in the seventh round, and Chuvalo connected also--except that three of his four sound tags during the round were below the belt...