Word: folley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bookmakers dismissed the fight as a mismatch and refused to take bets. Still, Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 25, insisted he was really worried by Challenger Zora Folley, a 34-year-old pug who had already been beaten by Sonny Listen, Henry Cooper and Ernie Terrell-all of whom Clay had kayoed. "I'm scared," said Cassius. "Anything can happen...
Nothing did. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week, Clay hit Folley with two perfect right crosses to the chin. The first dumped Folley for a count of nine in the fourth round; the second put him down for keeps in the seventh-ending what the Garden's own publicity men called "The Impossible Dream." The only surprising thing about Clay's ninth title "defense" in the past 22 months was that 13,780 people paid money to see it. Cassius' cut of the purse was $264,838-which was impressive enough...
...champ called it "a beautiful fight. Folley is a decent man. He landed a few low blows but he apologized." Clay then assured Mrs. Folley that her husband was all right and said hello to the Folley children...
...Folley knows everything about the manly art of self-defense," television announcer Don Dunphy said during the fight. But it didn't make any difference. He couldn't even find Clay. The challenger landed one good right in the first round and a few blows to the champ's head at the start of the seventh. But that...
Clay threw literally nothing in the first two rounds. In the third he connected with a right to Folley's jaw, and in the fifth he fired a long series of left jabs in the challenger's face. That was his finest round. The sixth was again monotonous and the seventh dull until the four-punch explosion and knockout...