Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National "500" Stock Car championship, Charlotte, N.C.; the World Lumberjack championships, Hayward, Wis.; and a preview of the Nov. 14 Clay-Williams heavyweight championship fight in Houston...
...first saw Williams in 1960, when the Big Cat was knocked out in the third round by Sonny Listen. Even on his back, Williams was impressive. Part Negro, part Cherokee, he stands 6 ft.2½in. and weighs 215 lbs.; his reach is 83 in. (4 in. longer than Clay's), and his 48-in. chest tapers to a 32-in. waist. "That fella could be great if he was trained properly," Benbow decided, and in 1962 bought up his contract for $20,000. Over the next two years, Williams won seven fights, lost only one, developed a thunderous...
...went to work on Benbow's 2,600-acre cattle ranch in Yoakum, Texas, tossing 80-lb. hay bales to rebuild his atrophied muscles. Finally, last June, Williams scored a third-round TKO over Tod Herring, the tenth-ranked heavyweight contender, thereby won a shot at Champion Clay...
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...