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...course for the WBA Clay had only been champion for a few months, since Feb. 6 when he beat the recognized titleholder, Ernie Terrell. The Association had plucked the crown away two years ago because Clay had agreed to a return bout with Liston, a deal which reportedly cost promoters...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: Cassius 'Goes to Graveyard' And Drags Boxing Along | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...dialogue that could have been prerecorded at a pet shop. Just as in the original, the special-effects man creates a table-top monster rally that comes to a clumsy climax in a duel between a triceratops and an allosaurus-the least exciting rematch since the second Clay-Liston fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Yawn of Mankind | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...Mildenberger away; the referee stopped the fight in the twelfth and declared Cassius the winner by a technical knockout. Heaving a big sigh of relief, richer by $200,000, Champion Clay began preparing for yet another title defense, this time against Houston's Cleveland Williams-whom Sonny Liston once described as "the toughest man I ever fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: How About That Whozis? | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...were the champion, I'd lie down in the first round. That would give boxing the glorious reputation it enjoyed before Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston, and give the world a champion it can appreciate...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Chuvalo Faces Ali in Title Mismatch | 3/29/1966 | See Source »

...squopp-squopp team plays a precise, defensive game, something like the way Floyd Patterson boxes; a squidge-squopp team uses the tactics Sonny Liston made famous in his prime -- pounding the opposition into...

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Tiddlywinkers Crush Cornell | 3/8/1966 | See Source »

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