Word: folley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cassius and a reach which might just hold off Sonny for six or seven rounds. Terrell is not a flashy fighter, but his strike and clinch style makes excellent use of his exceptional size. Terrell has beaten Cleveland "Cat" Williams and most recently the young giant sent aging Zora Folley stumbling down the heavyweight ladder, presumably for the last time...
...Folley victory looks impressive on paper, but to anyone who saw the fight it was apparent that Jones was suffering more than Folley until that lucky punch. Also, Jones was outpointed by Harold by Harold Johnson in a light heavyweight title fight last year. Ballooned to 186, Jones may have trouble matching the speed of flashy Cassius...
...London's Wembley Pool, the biggest (12,000), noisiest crowd of the week turned out to watch Local Hero Henry Cooper tune up for a title fight with Patterson by fighting the U.S.'s seventh-ranked Zora Folley-whom Cooper had beaten in 1958. Folley had other ideas. Trimmed down to a rock-hard 194 lbs., he sliced Cooper's tender face with slashing jabs in the first round, split open his nose and left eyebrow. In the second round, blood streaming from his wounds, Cooper fielded a right with his prominent jaw and sank...