Word: corletti
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...private parts-Chuvalo was ranked tenth among the World Boxing Association's top ten 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...
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