Word: liston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miami Beach it happened to Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston. "Get this!" he yelled to a photographer. Whoosh! He whiffed. Ouch! He wrenched his left knee. That was more than a month ago. But last week Listen's knee still hurt, so much that he limped right out of his return bout with Floyd Patterson...
...wasn't exactly unfamiliar territory to Thimmesch. He and Clay got to know each other the night of the Liston-Patterson fight, when they afterward went out on the town together -as much as one can with a 21-year-old fellow who doesn't drink and stays away from foxes (his name for the girls...
...were quick to recognize the value of McCracken's voice, but though he sounded just right for lyric romantic roles, his size cost him the job: he is 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighs 270 Ibs.. and has a 52-in. chest-eight inches bigger than Sonny Liston's and twelve bigger, than Jayne Mansfield...
...with the Hunt. Not everybody agreed with the crowd. In Miami, where the fight was on closed-circuit TV, Sonny Liston smiled at the catcalls. "He won it," said Liston. "It was Clay's fight." Did Cassius show him anything? Replied Liston: "He showed me I'll get locked up for murder if I fight him." Some sportswriters agreed. Feeling that they had been fooled, they turned on Cassius. He had no punch, no stamina, no stomach for the likes of Liston. they said. Others spotted nuggets of greatness. Work, they decided, clean living, experience-given these, Clay...
...which even at that represented a $1.25 rise for the week on news of Cohn's retreat. Cohn probably needs the money to finance another of his playthings. Championship Sports, Inc. Championship must have $200,000 to promote next month's heavyweight rematch between Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson, but most of its proceeds from the first Liston-Patterson match were seized by the Internal Revenue Service. Helpfully ex-Champion Patterson has lent the outfit $125.000 to help finance his rematch...