Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three of the last eight-to Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell and an Argentine named Eduardo Corletti. Sportswriters called the fight "the mismatch of the decade"; bookmakers installed Clay as the 1-to-7 favorite-and then refused to take any bets. There were rows of empty $7 seats at Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens; the 38 theater proprietors who piped in the closed-circuit telecast took their lumps when only 50,000 fans turned out -v. 250,000 who watched Clay demolish Floyd Patterson last November...
Last week Champion Clay was reduced to fighting for pocket money in Toronto, a hockey town, against George Chuvalo, a onetime used-car salesman. When it was all over and he had won, Clay suffered one more indignity: the Canadian government held up his purse, to make sure that he paid his taxes...
Cassius Clay could not floor, stagger, seriously hurt challenger George Chuvalo in Toronto last night, but the heavyweight champion jabbed his way to a unanimous 15-round decision anyway...
Chuvalo, a plodding Toronto dogfighter has never yet been knocked off his feet, never took a backward step and drew repeated cheers from the partisan crowd as he battered away at Clay's body while catching a steady barrage of pot-shots in his own face from Clay's left...
...Terrell fight was scared out of New York, Chicago, Miami, Louisville, and Huron. S.D., before it settled on the safe side of the border in Toronto. Amid the coast-to-coast chorus of National Anthem singing, the Chuvalo-for-Terrell switch barely made enough noise to get into the newspapers...