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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...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Clay Topples Folley In Seven Dull Rounds | 3/23/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Clay Topples Folley In Seven Dull Rounds | 3/23/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Clay Topples Folley In Seven Dull Rounds | 3/23/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Clay Topples Folley In Seven Dull Rounds | 3/23/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Clay Topples Folley In Seven Dull Rounds | 3/23/1967 | See Source »

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