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Saturday, November 14 WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Floyd Patterson analyzes the Nov. 16 Liston-Clay Heavyweight Championship Fight...
What next? Goodbye Foxes. Last week Cassius was in Boston training for his Nov. 16 rematch with ex-Champion Sonny Liston. The tomato-red Caddy was gone, replaced by a block-long black limousine and a Muslim chauffeur who wore a fuzzy fur hat. Gone, too, were the foxes-Clay is a married man now-and most of the 25 extra pounds he had put on this summer. This time Cassius was every inch the grownup pro prizefighter, determined to prove that what happened last time was no mistake. A rock-hard 215 Ibs. ("I'll be down...
...hangs up his stocking at Christmas," said Liston, "and he has to wait until he wakes up in the morning to see what he got. Clay is like that kid. He'll know what happened when he wakes up." Bookmakers agreed: they installed Liston as a 1-2 favorite to become the second man in history (the other: Floyd Patterson) to regain the heavyweight championship...
...Bread. Then there were the Nilons, Bob and Jack, promoters and general "advisers" to Liston. Bob unabashedly claimed credit for persuading Cassius Clay to challenge Liston for the title. "It might be fair to say that I am the person who talked Clay into actually being heavyweight champion," he said. Jack admitted that he stands to collect $400,000 as his share of the bout's proceeds, but he shrugged that off as incidental. "There's a lot more to life than bread." Commented Mich igan Senator Philip A. Hart: "There's a lot of bread...
There were others. Liston seemed to be surrounded by curious people-like Nevada Gambler Ash Resnick, described as "athletic director" of a Las Vegas hotel, who was in Sonny's corner on the night he lost the title. And Pep Barone, a Palermo factotum, who was a ubiquitous visitor at Liston's training camp. ("Sonny thinks Pep is good luck," explained Nilon. "He's very superstitious.") The tenderness of the hearings reached a high point with the testimony of paradoxical Edward Lassman, a member of the Miami Beach Boxing Commission, which gave its official blessing...