Word: clay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clay was obviously in command of the ring situation from the beginning. He danced out of his corner to land a couple of quick punches then virtually trotted backwards around the ring with his guard at his knees, while the sporadically lunging Liston lumbered after him like some great Goliath pleading for the David to stand still long enough so that the giant could pulverize him into a gelatinous dollop of bloody pulp...
Commented one announcer, "Clay was making all the beautiful moves and Liston was falling into all the booby traps...
When asked for a description of the punch that ended the fight, Clay at first replied, "a left hook and a right cross," but a few seconds later changed this to, I'll have to see the video tape...
...their first fight in Miami, Clay whacked a presumably injured Liston for six rounds and scarcely staggered those 215 pounds of lead. He called the winning blow last night his "phantom punch," and it was aptly named. You could scrutinize the video tapes of the fight from now till doomsday without finding a remote facsimile of "toonder 'n' lightning...
...know just what happened in the Sonny Liston-Cassius Clay fight any more than you. But like fight fans around the world-from bleary eyed London viewers to the guys in the bar around the corner--I suspect that something was not quite kosher in the sleepy little mill town of Lewiston...