Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Heavyweight boxing champion Mohammed Ali, better known as Cassius Marcellus Clay, was to appear on the same program last night, but failed to appear for reasons unknown...
...Willie Pastrano, 28: a sixth-round TKO over Gregorio Peralta, in a light-heavyweight (175 Ibs.) championship bout at New Orleans. Stablemate of Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay (both are trained by Miami's Angelo Dundee), Pastrano had been beaten decisively by the Argentine challenger in a nontitle bout last September. This time, Wily Willie opened a bloody gash over Peralta's left eye, mercilessly pounded away at the wound until the ring doctor stopped the fight. "This was the big apple," said Pastrano, who collected an estimated $60,000 for the victory-biggest purse of his 13-year...
Died. Alejandro Lavorante, 27, Argentine boxer who won 17 heavyweight bouts in the U.S., lost five (including one each to Cassius Clay and Archie Moore); of brain injuries suffered when he was knocked out by San Francisco's Johnny Riggins in September 1962; in Mendoza, Argentina. Despite three craniotomies, Lavorante remained in a coma for 18 months, though nurses fed him meals, guided him through exercises, even trained him to comb his hair...
...heavyweight championship of the world did a lot for Sonny Listen, considering how briefly he held it - one year and five months, to be exact. For one thing, he learned how to sign his name to checks and things. And he fell in with a classy circle of friends and business associates...
...Bread. Then there were the Nilons, Bob and Jack, promoters and general "advisers" to Liston. Bob unabashedly claimed credit for persuading Cassius Clay to challenge Liston for the title. "It might be fair to say that I am the person who talked Clay into actually being heavyweight champion," he said. Jack admitted that he stands to collect $400,000 as his share of the bout's proceeds, but he shrugged that off as incidental. "There's a lot more to life than bread." Commented Mich igan Senator Philip A. Hart: "There's a lot of bread...