Word: ko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast bazaar. If his timing is lucky, he can almost feel the heat as tawny Samoan youths prance beneath on mats of fire, and only moments later he may be staring down into the whites of the eyes of a dozen Zulus. He flies from Denmark to Switzerland via Ko rea, Venezuela, Central America, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Polynesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Malaysia, and most of Africa, with the rest of the world stretching one way down a series of pools to the Bell System, and another way across the Unisphere to the sovereign republics of Ford, Chrysler...
...those of the flistic fans who remember the great days of Rick Rice and Ricardo Wilson the afternoon was a disappointment. And even for the spectators who came for the blood and the KO's, the spectacle could hardly have been satisfying...
Clay opened Round Three with a damaging flurry of punches which opened a deep gash under the champ's left eye. Fully aroused by Clay's audacity and perhaps remembering that this was the round he had chosen for the KO, Liston tore fato Clay with a vicious array of blows. Sonny landed a left and a right to the body, a hard left to the jaw and followed this with a rare right uppercut. The third round was the only one in which Liston displayed the lethal effectiveness of his Patterson triumphs. That he did not lay Cassius...
...short, Cassius will be hit and every time he is hit, whether by Sonny's battering left jabs, by a pounding free fist in a clinch, or by the hook, Cassius will get a little slower and a little weaker. If Sonny does not KO Cassius in the third or fourth according to schedule, Sonny will win the war by attrition...
...second fighter with a fair chance to clobber Clay is powerful "Cat" Williams whom Liston terms, "the second-hardest-punching heavyweight." Sonny KO'd the cat twice, and to make him do it again would only belabor the issue, but a Williams-Clay contest might be another story. The mild blows of Henry Cooper deposited Cassius on the canvas for eight seconds in London last winter, and anything Cooper can do Williams can do better...