Word: liston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Floyd Patterson predicted that he'd "do better this time" in his heavyweight title bout with Sonny Liston at Las Vegas last night, and indeed he did. The formidable Liston required a full 2:10 of-the first round to dispose of the exchamp, four seconds longer than it took him in their first encounter...
...Liston flattened Patterson three times during the round, and his awesome display of power left little doubt that there is no one in the heavyweight division capable of wresting from him the throne which he took from Patterson in Chicago last September...
Patterson eluded his 215-pound foe for a minute, and then Liston connected with a pair of vicious right uppercuts, followed by a virtual sledgehammer blow to the head. Patterson went down for the first time. Liston then backed Patterson against the ropes, pummeled him across the ring, and floored the broading boy from Scarsdale, N.Y. with a solid left...
Jack Nilon, front man for Heavyweight Champion Sonny Listen, pushed his way through the swarm of admirers. "I'm ready for Liston," Clay told him, "but only if the price is right. I'll draw the crowd-not him." Nilon nodded. "I've come 3,500 miles to get you," he said. "The price will be right...
Still, it was more honorable than eating his way out. While he was supposed to be training. Sonny was clumping around Miami Beach nightspots. Estimates on his weight ranged all the way up to 245 lbs., or 30 lbs. over his fighting weight. With Liston facing surgery for a torn meniscus, or cartilage, and out of action for at least six months, the title fight was postponed indefinitely. But only $75,000 worth of tickets had been sold anyway, and nobody seemed to care much...