Word: liston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patterson has not fought a good fight since the second bout with Ingemar Johansson. The fast, instinctive combinations that buried the Hammer of Thor are gone. Floyd went into both Liston bouts with a rigid pre-fight strategy -- indicative of a nature that has no place in the ring...
...primary interest in predicting this bout is figuring how far it will go. Liston floored Patterson in one; Clay ko'ed Sonny in one, but this fight may go as many as two rounds...
Clay was angered that the second Liston bout was so short. He wanted more time to humiliate the Bear, to show off his beautiful style. The cries of "Fix" also gave him second thoughts about how to best establish his supremacy among the likes of Jack Johnson, Jack Dempsey, and Joe Louis...
...also had a clutch of new songs that seemed fresher and more sophisticated than '50s-vintage Lehrer. In the Dominican Republic, he cracked, Johnson landed the marines "faster than you can knock down Sonny Liston." Lehrer also pinked the plunking protestniks whose St. Joan is Baez. "We are the folk song army," he chirps. "Every one of us care ... It sounds more ethnic if it ain't in good English...
...Even a cursory examination of the Clay-Liston bout [June 4] should convince the severest skeptic that vaudeville is not dead...