Word: clays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavyweights. True, he had never been knocked down in 47 pro fights, but he had lost eleven, including three of the last eight-to Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell and an Argentine named Eduardo Corletti. Sportswriters called the fight "the mismatch of the decade"; bookmakers installed Clay as the 1-to-7 favorite-and then refused to take any bets. There were rows of empty $7 seats at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens; the 38 theater proprietors who piped in the closed-circuit telecast took their lumps when only 50,000 fans turned out -v. 250,000 who watched Clay...
There must be times when Cassius Clay wonders what in the name of Allah has happened to him. Just yesterday he was "the Greatest," a carefree teenager who chattered amusingly about winning the heavyweight championship of the world and driving around in a tomato-red Cadillac. Now he is 24, divorced, in Dutch with the draft, condemned by Congressmen. He is the "champion of the world," but it is a smallish world: eleven states, the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the Brotherhood of Black Muslims...
Last week Champion Clay was reduced to fighting for pocket money in Toronto, a hockey town, against George Chuvalo, a onetime used-car salesman. When it was all over and he had won, Clay suffered one more indignity: the Canadian government held up his purse, to make sure that he paid his taxes...
...Clay, moving slower in the eighth through tenth rounds, looked as though he might be tiring even though his jabs to the head were plaguing the persistent challenger...
...11th round, Clay really opened up with every shot in his arsenal, scoring regularly but damaging little. Chuvalo, shooting for more haymakers with each round, withstood the head attack with some body returns of his own. In the 12th and 15th, he landed several solid punches to the challenger's head but could not inflict permanent damage...