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Fans at ringside screamed "Foul!, Foul!", but Referee Jack Silvers just shrugged. "Chuvalo is a body puncher," he explained later, "and stopping him from hitting low is like cutting off his arm." In the third round, the Canadian pinned Clay against the ropes, belted him a dozen times with right and left hooks-all below the belt. The judges applauded that display by awarding Chuvalo the round...
What did it prove? Nothing, aside from the fact that Clay can take it as well as dish it out. Some critics sneered that he was a powder-puff puncher; others insisted that Cassius deliberately had "carried" Chuvalo, could have knocked him out any time he wanted. Clay replied by exhibiting a pair of swollen hands that looked almost as bad as Chuvalo's face: "George's head," he moaned, "is the hardest thing I've ever punched...
...showed the killer ("me") and the boy ("him") in the exact positions Inspector Samson had calculated. An accompanying note said: "Expect another dramatic development." It came when a grey-haired man in his 40s, dressed as a worker, handed Jean-Luc's Bugs Bunny comic book to a ticket puncher...
...thing is certain. Cassius Clay deserved better than 7-1 odds for this fight. The gash on Liston's face and the dislocated shoulder prove that Cassius is not the impotent puncher that his critics had labeled him. If Cassius showed that he can hand out some punishment, his weathering of Liston's third round attack also proved that he can take it. Clay has been maintaining for some time that he is the fastest heavyweight ever. Few would doubt...
...rest of the division is singularly unimpressive. Billy Daniels, only a fair puncher and a worse boxer, was outpointed by Jones in Teaneck this summer, and all one could really say in Daniels' favor was that Jones never looked worse winning. Daniels will face Folley on October is in Montreal, and only a very decisive win would satisfy the sceptics who have labelled him a club fighter...