Word: tko
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Float like a butterfly" could be a tall order for Cassius Clay, 22, who at a portly 230 Ibs. is surely the world's heavyweight something, but not, apparently, its boxing champion anymore. Scoring the TKO it has threatened ever since it started investigating the rank finances of February's fight, the World Boxing Association stripped Cassius of his title when he signed in Boston for a Nov. 16 rematch with Sonny Listen. Unfazed, the Lip zipped to Manhattan to bedizen his ample middle with a $500 gold-plated championship belt from Ring Magazine. Verbally, he still stings...
...Willie Pastrano, 28: a sixth-round TKO over Gregorio Peralta, in a light-heavyweight (175 Ibs.) championship bout at New Orleans. Stablemate of Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay (both are trained by Miami's Angelo Dundee), Pastrano had been beaten decisively by the Argentine challenger in a nontitle bout last September. This time, Wily Willie opened a bloody gash over Peralta's left eye, mercilessly pounded away at the wound until the ring doctor stopped the fight. "This was the big apple," said Pastrano, who collected an estimated $60,000 for the victory-biggest purse of his 13-year...
Dick Szum in the 165-pound class contributed the only total demolition job of the day by pounding a game Todd Cobey to the canvass three times in the first round for a TKO victory...
...crow in China wouldn't be enough to satisfy the appetites of the cognoscenti of the boxing world tonight as young Cassius Marcellus Clay demolished the legend of Sonny Liston with a seven-round TKO...
...freshman 155-pound title went to Art Campbell for a TKO victory over Mark Kunen. Kunen never had a chance against his heavier, experienced opponent, but he held on gamely until the referee stopped the action late in the first round