Cassius Clay ~ "1967 Planned Title Bouts"

[Bill Paxtom]

1967

Cassius Clay,

After making 1967 Title Defenses against Ernie Terrell and Zora Folley in 1967;

* February 6 ......... W Dec 15 ......Ernie Terrell
* March 22............ TKO 7 ........... Zora Folley

Cassius 'secretly' wanted to set an unprecented Title Defense record, and had planned bouts against the following opponents;

* April.............. Floyd Patterson II ................... Las Vegas, Nevada
* May............... Leotis Martin .......................... Stockholm, Sweden
* June.............. Thad Spencer ........................ Oakland, California
* July............... Karl Mildenberger II ............... Frankfurt, Germany
* August........... Oscar Bonavena..................... Tokyo, Japan
* September..... George Chuvalo II .................. Toronto, Canada
* November...... Joe Frazier ............................. Houston, Texas

This would have given Cassius '9' Title defenses in single year.

[Sleepwalker]

Fighting Frazier 2 months after 15 rounds with Chuvalo a 2nd time would have been too tough.

[Bill Paxtom]

Fighting Frazier 2 months after 15 rounds with Chuvalo a 2nd time would have been too tough.

Yes, that would have been some Mountain to climb.

Seems that as of {late March 1967}, Cassius' plan was to clean up the Heavyweight Division in 1967,
and turn over the Heavyweight Championship to his brother Rudy Clay on New Year's Day on January 1, 1968.

Rudy was to 'inherit' the Title, and make '2 or 3' Title Defenses in Africa in 1968, and then retire.

Then, it was to be handed off to 'best friend' Jimmy Ellis on January 1, 1969.

[ruthless rocco]

I was planning to wake up early yesterday, eat a healthy breakfast then go for a 3 hour bike ride, followed by a long dump, a hot bath with 2 close to underage women who would then take me out for dinner, pop some pills with me and spend the rest of the night fucking until the sun came up when we would all watch the tour de france while they traded off blowing me and eating my ass out.

Unfortunately it was a rest day on the tour and we just slept in and went for coffee around 3pm. Oh well... Plans! Hahaha....

[Bill Paxtom]

1967

Cassius Clay even wanted to get Ingemar Johannson into the 1967 mix.

That Cassius Clay.......... He was a funny sort.

[Master]

I was planning to wake up early yesterday, eat a healthy breakfast then go for a 3 hour bike ride, followed by a long dump, a hot bath with 2 close to underage women who would then take me out for dinner, pop some pills with me and spend the rest of the night fucking until the sun came up when we would all watch the tour de france while they traded off blowing me and eating my ass out.

Unfortunately it was a rest day on the tour and we just slept in and went for coffee around 3pm. Oh well... Plans! Hahaha....

I think what Rocco is trying to say is that plans are not always reality and real life things get in the way.

[Bill Paxtom]

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