Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whooping it up at a Greenwich Village Java saloon called The Bitter End and one of the poems recited was Ode to a Champion: Cassius Marcellus Clay. Its author? Who else but Prosodic Pugilist Cassius Marcellus Clay, 20, getting ready for his Madison Square Garden skirmish this week with Heavyweight Doug Jones. Quoth Cassius: "The word's been passed around that I'm a very charming guy./ the greatest fighter that ever lived,/ and I'll gladly tell you why . . ." Of course if he turned out to be wrong, Cassius could just call himself a beat poet...
Eliot answered back to the Winthrop heavyweight sweep by winning a first and second place in the 177 pound contests. Mike Thomas took down Ormond Hammond in the last five seconds of the final match to win first place. Until that point. Thomas and Hammond had been wrestling...
After his heavyweight victory, Croasdale commented that the competition was much more "professional" than last year because the poor wrestlers were weeded out early...
Eighteen thousand eager fans packed Madison Square Garden to see the self-proclaimed "greatest heavyweight of them all" fulfill his pre-fight promise to level Jones in four. They greeted the decision with a storm of boos and cries of "fake...
...pugilistic patrician, either. After his narrow first-round recovery he was shaken again in rounds four and seven. Clay's offense was wild and ineffective on the inside and even the few solid punches that Jones couldn't deflect did little damage to the small Harlem heavyweight. Only in round three did Clay connect with a series of sharp jabs and combinations...