Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a sweep of the last two rounds carried Clay back from the brink of disaster...
...Cassius did, after all, win. His career is not over; he's still a promising contender. Those few experts who shoveled through Clay's Roman pomp and lyric poetry saw a young (21), inexperienced, unpolished, and unproved quantity...
Cassius had us all talking about the dream match of Liston-Clay when he had never flattened anything more than the 1962 relics of the once-great Archie Moore. The reason for the disappointment lies with us as well as Clay...
Unfortunately, Cassius is still talking about Liston. In his dressing room after the fight, Clay declared, "I think I'll get rid of the Big Bear (Sonny) quicker than Jones. No doubt about it, Jones is a better fighter than the Big Bear...
Liston's reply from Miami Beach was perhaps more accurate--Clay showed me that I'll get locked up for murder if we're ever matched." A bitter Doug Jones merely added, "He won the decision. I won the fight...