Word: folley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dullest heavyweight championship fights in history, Cassius Clay toyed around with slow and aging Zora Folley for seven rounds last night, then knocked him out with a right...
Clay danced around, his gloves flailing the air with no attempt to go after the challenger for the first three rounds. In the fourth he knocked Folley down with a quick right-left combination...
...Folley was outclassed from the beginning. The only question was, When was Clay going to decide to put him down? "If I met him ten years ago," the champion said after the fight. "I know I would be in trouble." Clay would have been 15 then...
...those fighters who spend ten years beating most of the best boys around without even getting the big chance. He is a yardstick fighter, a constant to measure the up-and-comers by. His near KO of Cassius finally mortalized the Louisville Lip for the sportswriters. His KO of Folley was the beginning of the end for the Arizona boxer. Doug's hard punching and ring savvy would provide the perfect test for Terrell...
...rest of the division is singularly unimpressive. Billy Daniels, only a fair puncher and a worse boxer, was outpointed by Jones in Teaneck this summer, and all one could really say in Daniels' favor was that Jones never looked worse winning. Daniels will face Folley on October is in Montreal, and only a very decisive win would satisfy the sceptics who have labelled him a club fighter...