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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...