Word: payday
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...Madison Square Garden last week to the same man he took it away from: Nigeria's Dick Tiger. That did not really matter either. What did was the fact that Joey's cut of the $161,964 gate came to $56,050, making it the biggest payday of his career...
...Payday. It was nothing of the kind. Referee Walcott stopped the fight at 2 min. 12 sec.-which would make it only the seventh fastest. That was the least of the problems. Most of the fans in the arena had not seen the knockout punch; neither had the 500,000 others watching on closed-circuit TV. "Fix! Fix! Fix!" they chanted. "Fake! Fake! Fake!" At ringside, Joe Louis conceded that Clay had landed a right, "but it wasn't no good." Snapped Canadian Heavyweight George Chuvalo: "It's a phony, a real phony." Even Cassius was confused...
...fraud are not synonymous. The truth was simply that a big, tough, fast young boxer hit a woozy old stiff in the face. Nobody will ever be sure just how hard Cassius Clay's punch was, but it was hard enough to make Sonny Liston call it a payday...
Could Patterson beat Clay? Or Liston? Maybe not. But he had at least won his right to one more big payday...
...Bannen, a haggard Celt who looks like Jason Robards on the morning after, plays the company clown: a come-day-go-day-God-send-payday type who always says what he thinks but seldom thinks before he says...