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| One forgets how young they were and how short a Boxer's Career is. |
Now the Clay-Liston fix was in according to the FBI. Let's hope J. Edgar Hover had his bets in on the tip.
Is there anything straight in this world? m/r
FBI suspected iconic 1964 Ali-Liston fight was rigged by mob - Washington Times
2-24-14 Thom Leverro
Fifty years ago today, Muhammad Ali “shocked the world” and beat one of the most fearsome fighters ever to put on a pair of boxing gloves, heavyweight champion Sonny Liston.
But what if that storied fight was not what it seemed?
It happened Feb. 25, 1964, at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The film clip and sound bite have now become part of the American story — Liston quitting his stool before the eighth round, a young Cassius Clay, as Ali was known then, bouncing around the ring, waving his hands, yelling to the reporters at ringside who thought he would be killed by the more veteran boxer. “I’m king of the world! I’m king of the world!” Ali proclaimed.
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/24/was-rigged-by-mob/#ixzz2uLMScSJZ
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