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...only took a little more than seven minutes last night for Cassius Clay to dispose of Cleveland "Big Cat" Williams by a technical knockout at the Astrodome in Houston. Clay floored the listless 33-year-old challenger four times before the referee stopped the fight after 1:08 of the third round...
...extra-fast tonight," Clay said later. He was so fast that the Cat hardly laid a paw on him. "I used the Ali Shuffle before each knock-down, and it really confused him," the heavyweight champ said...
...Benbow quit the ring to become a businessman, but his affection for the sport remained. He made one fortune in costume jewelry, lost it in the 1946 market crash, made another in Texas oil. Now 63, Benbow is back in boxing as manager and father confessor to Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams, 33, who on Nov. 14 in Houston will fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship of the world...
Benbow first saw Williams in 1960, when the Big Cat was knocked out in the third round by Sonny Listen. Even on his back, Williams was impressive. Part Negro, part Cherokee, he stands 6 ft.2½in. and weighs 215 lbs.; his reach is 83 in. (4 in. longer than Clay's), and his 48-in. chest tapers to a 32-in. waist. "That fella could be great if he was trained properly," Benbow decided, and in 1962 bought up his contract for $20,000. Over the next two years, Williams won seven fights, lost only one, developed...
Manager Benbow insists that the Big Cat will demolish Cassius; "Clay is a stinker, a bum, a clown," he says. But regardless of what happens Nov. 14, he figures that his and Williams' share of the pot will top $500,000, and he has already decided how to spend it. "I'm going to have a stable of 40 to 50 young fighters," he says. "I want them from every race and creed, from all over the world." Benbow plans to build a woodworking plant on his ranch; his boxers will spend their days turning out "the finest...