Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Round One Cassius was a dancing master, ducking, slipping and backing away from a barrage of Liston lefts. Gloves near his waist, Clay seemed to be taunting Sonny to connect; Sonny never did. Sometime during this first round Liston claims to have injured his shoulder trying to block a Clay punch; it was not apparent to the viewers. Liston stalked Clay from the moment the bell sounded, connecting with hard shots to the body, but more often missing with ferocious jabs. Clay scored with a volley of six punches to Sonny's head and capped them with a sharp right...
...second round saw a more poised and potent Liston, who landed an assortment of jabs and hooks and finally battered bobbing and weaving Clay to the ropes with crushing blows to the body. The round was Liston...
...Clay opened Round Three with a damaging flurry of punches which opened a deep gash under the champ's left eye. Fully aroused by Clay's audacity and perhaps remembering that this was the round he had chosen for the KO, Liston tore fato Clay with a vicious array of blows. Sonny landed a left and a right to the body, a hard left to the jaw and followed this with a rare right uppercut. The third round was the only one in which Liston displayed the lethal effectiveness of his Patterson triumphs. That he did not lay Cassius...
Those of us who were expecting Sonny to flatten Clay in four were rudely surprised when a vigorous and confident Cassius answered the fourth round bell. Advancing against Liston for the first time in the fight, Cassius began to dominate the action with stinging left jabs thrown from every angle. Liston delivered a solid left and right to the jaw, but the punches dented neither Clay's jaw nor his confidence. Liston was plodding by the end of the round; Clay was faster than ever. Round to Clay...
Round Five may always remain a questionmark. An apparently sightless Clay, who has alternately claimed that he was gouged by the champion's thumb and blinded by liniment on Sonny's gloves, managed to hold off the lumbering Liston with no more protection than a stiff left arm. Liston landed ponderous hooks to Clay's body and head but their lack of visible effect made the spectators wonder for the first time whether there was indeed something wrong with the champ. Clay seemed to recover his sight late in the round, but the round was Liston...