Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next $1,000,000, of course: that is already assured if Sonny Liston can only learn how to drive a Cadillac in a straight line. But after Liston, what? Champion Clay thought he had just the thing: Canada's George Chuvalo, 27, a slabsided, 208-lb. heavyweight who had won 29 out of 39 fights, 23 by knockouts. Chuvalo seemed to be a pressagent's dream: broken-nosed, granite-chinned, he had never been knocked off his feet ("Belt him in the face," said one admirer, "and all he does is spit"), spent his spare time chopping wood...
...find a brand-new challenger. Discredited as he was by two quick knockouts at the hands of Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, 30, is still one of the most interesting fighters ever to climb into a ring: a problem child, a moody, monkish man who at 21 became the youngest heavyweight champion ever, without even becoming a real heavyweight. Floyd weighed 182¼; lbs. when he knocked out Archie Moore in 1956; for last week's fight he weighed 197¼ lbs., the heaviest of his career-and the bulge of fat around his middle was obvious. He had also...
...would put him down as soon as he tapped him on his china chin. "I proved that I could take a punch much better than you gentlemen gave me credit for," he said. "I would say that I am deserving of a chance to fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight title. And if I didn't feel that I could win it, I wouldn't be fighting...
...Harvard, Pickett plans to start Howie Henjyoji at 123, Bing Sung at 130, Tom Gilmore at 137, Howie Durfee at 147, Ed Franquemont at 157, Jeff Grant at 167, Chris Wickens at 177, Captain Ben Brooks at 191, and Tack Chace at heavyweight...
...wrestlers of Rutgers are Co-captain Sam Gramiocioni at 130 pounds, Gane O'Donnell at 147, and heavyweight Paul Goble...