Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gonna whup him. I'm gonna give him a humiliation. I'll keep hittin' him, and I'll keep talkin'." So said Cassius Clay before meeting Ernie Terrell for the heavyweight championship. Why so angry? Well, Cassius calls himself Muhammad Ali these days because he's a Black Muslim, and Terrell did not appreciate the significance of that fact since he kept calling Cassius, Clay...
...great to start a snowball going," Naylor says. To have a meet go down to the final heavyweight match is "fine as far as spectators go, but the spectators are not the guys wrestling...
...Heavyweight Bob Panoff lost 3-2 in a closely fought match...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The International Toboggan championship in Saint-Moritz, the World Championship Auto Demolition Derby in Islip, N.Y., and a look at the folderol and fakery surrounding the Feb. 6 Cassius Clay-Ernie Terrell heavyweight champion- ship fight...
Actually, argued Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 25, fighting isn't very timeconsuming. It takes up only 10% of his waking hours, leaving the other 90% free for his "ministering" as a Black Muslim parson. Trouble is, he can't seem to convert his Louisville draft board to the view that his religious vocation entitles him to an exemption. Nor should his claims to being a conscientious objector keep him from serving, the board ruled. Now training in Houston for his Feb. 6 bout with Ernie Terrell, the Greatest conscientiously objected, bawling: "We're gonna take this...