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1,000 to I. But there was one slip 'twixt the Lip and his cuppa. In the fourth round, his left eye nearly closed, blood dribbling down his cheek, Cooper lurched around the ring-swinging blindly, charging his tormentor like a maddened bull. Clay was the contemptuous matador-casually...
Kicks & Tugs. Nobody ever has found a way to stop Pelé-short of mayhem. Desperate opponents trip him, tug at his jersey, aim vicious kicks at his shins and groin. The tactics rarely work. In a game against Argentina in 1961. Pelé was on his way to a...
The sour note was the remark that the referee's card was absurd. Well the ref was closer to the fight than even those at ringside. Maybe he saw things the rest didn't. There were some sportswriters who thought the judges scored it too close. Yes, some...
But from the start it was bad. In the fifth round, Moore lost his mouthpiece, was cut inside his mouth. In the tenth, Ramos ripped off a left that dropped him to one knee. Moore popped up, ran into a storm of punches, fell again. At the count of five...
On with the Hunt. Not everybody agreed with the crowd. In Miami, where the fight was on closed-circuit TV, Sonny Liston smiled at the catcalls. "He won it," said Liston. "It was Clay's fight." Did Cassius show him anything? Replied Liston: "He showed me I'll...