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...same time Lassman expects the Commission to drop Sonny Liston, now number one contender, from the rankings, thus leaving the motley crew of Doug Jones, Ernie Terrell and Eddie Machen as the top three contenders in a round-robin competition for the crown...
Clay's one chance of finishing the fifteenth round in vertical position is to hit and run, and mostly to run. Eddie Machen did it four years ago and lasted ten rounds without winning one. Floyd Patterson stood up to Sonny... for a total of four minutes in two fights...
...Eddle Machen, who once managed to backpeddle for 15 rounds with Liston, has been unranked since his recent emergence from a mental hospital. And that brings us to Floyd Patterson. The former champ, victor over such ring luminaries as Tom McNeeley, Brian London, Pete Rademacher, and Roy Harris is now looking for fights with the likes of Billy Daniels and Henry Cooper. The only real difference between Floyd the champ and Floyd the number-seven contender is that he now has to go the bums rather than letting them come to him. And that is a difference. Even for those...
...square world. Heavyweight Eddie Machen brought unquestioned skill and uncommon pride. A strong, lithe Negro from Redding, Calif. Machen was no classic heavyweight-only 23 of his 41 victories were by knockouts-but he was easily the most talented boxer in a division that was dominated by a bunch of classless pugs. He taunted opponents gleefully ("What's the matter-can't you hit me?"), beat them with eye-catching combination punches. Until 1958 he was undefeated; he ranked as the No. 1 challenger and seemed sure to get a crack at the title held by Floyd Patterson...
...Eddie Machen was never quite the same afterwards. Unable to get good fights, he had money troubles, suffered severe fits of depression. When he did fight, Machen showed enough of his old form to climb back until he again ranked as the No. 1 challenger-but a title fight for a man knocked out so easily seemed far away. Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston might agree to fight, but would anybody come to see it? Fortnight ago, on a highway near Vallejo, Calif., a state policeman found Machen in a parked car with a loaded gun, muttering about committing suicide. Bundled...