Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another enigma surrounding the swiftest knockout ever in a heavyweight title fight was Clay's failure to go to a neutral corner immediately. After the knockdown Clay hovered over Liston and hollered a few vilifications at him. As I've always understood the rule, a fighter must retire to a neutral corner before the countdown begins. If Clay had thought the knockdown were legitimate, he wouldn't have jeopardized his chances for a first-round victory by carrying on a little social chat with his prostrate victim before going to a corner...
...depite all the blasts it has received, tonight's heavyweight title fight between Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston should be one of the most interesting and dramatic sports events in many years...
Died. Lucian ("Sonny") Banks, 24, journeyman heavyweight boxer from Detroit, whose main claim to fame was his 1962 knockdown of Cassius Clay (Clay kayoed Banks four rounds later); of a blood clot in the brain, three days after he was knocked out in the ninth round by Leotis Martin; in Philadelphia. Banks was the 64th fighter to die of ring injuries in the last five years...
Harvard's heavyweight crew will get a chance to prove this summer what the experts have been saying all spring: that the Crimson eight is the best in the world...
...most exciting finish of the day came in the freshman heavyweight final; twenty strokes from the line Cornell went ahead and looked like a sure winner. Just as the Harvard crowd was moaning about losing the race, the Cornell boat stopped, as their number six man caught a crab. The Crimson slid to a 6:22.9 victory, much to the surprise of the crowd and the crew...