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Feb 14, 2023

Max Baer Jr. Hits Big Time on “Beverly Hillbillies”

Feb. 14, 1963 - Max Baer, the former heavyweight champion, always wanted to be an actor more than a fighter. He starred in a film called...

Feb 9, 2023

Clay and Liston Nearly Come to Blows in Miami Gym

Feb. 9, 1963 - Cassius Clay (pictured with Angelo Dundee) and Sonny Liston came close to tangling physically today in an exchange of...

Feb 4, 2023

Cassius Clay Testified Against Ban on Boxing

Feb. 4, 1963 - Proposals to ban professional boxing in New York State ran into solid opposition today at a joint legislative committee...

Jan 24, 2023

Clay Defeats Powell in Three Rounds, As Predicted

Jan. 24, 1963 - Cassius Clay, self-proclaimed “Louisville Lip,” disposed of a former professional football player, Charlie Powell, in...

Jan 23, 2023

Cassius Clay: Powell Must “Go In Three”

Jan. 23, 1963 - “So you people will believe in me, Powell must now go in three.” So reads the latest entry in the verse anthology of...

Jan 22, 2023

Calls for Boxing Ban Get Louder

Jan. 22, 1963 - There was agitation in Illinois and New York today for the abolition of professional boxing. These are the two states...

Dec 25, 2022

Heavyweight Alejandro Lavorante Still in Coma

Dec. 25, 1962 - Heavyweight boxer Alejandro Lavorante (right), in a coma since Sept. 21, spent a silent Christmas today in California...

Dec 22, 2022

Middleweight Rubin (Hurricane) Carter Wins Tough Decision Over Holly Mims at the Garden

Dec. 22, 1962 - Rubin (Hurricane) Carter (left), slugging middleweight contender, had to climb off the canvas in the fourth round tonight...

Dec 18, 2022

Psychiatrist: Heavyweight Boxer Eddie Machen “Dangerous to Himself”

Dec. 18, 1962 - Heavyweight boxer Eddie Machen (pictured in 1960 with his manager Sid Flaherty) is so mentally disturbed that he is...

Dec 17, 2022

Unbeaten Cassius Clay to Fight Former Football Player Charlie Powell

Dec. 17, 1962 - Unbeaten heavyweight contender Cassius Clay of Louisville, Ky., was matched Monday for a 10-round fight with former pro...

Dec 15, 2022

Light-Heavyweight Doug Jones Scores Major Upset Over Zora Folley

Dec. 15, 1962 - Light-heavyweight contender Doug Jones of New York climbed off the canvas in the first round tonight and scored the...

Dec 13, 2022

Heavyweight Eddie Machen Goes Berserk in Mental Hospital

Dec. 13, 1962 - Heavyweight fighter Eddie Machen (pictured) knocked two hospital attendants unconscious and injured a third in a wild and...

Dec 12, 2022

Heavyweight Eddie Machen Taken Into Custody as Attempted Suicide

Dec. 12, 1962 - Third-ranked heavyweight boxer Eddie Machen (pictured in July) was taken into custody by the California State Highway...

Dec 9, 2022

Welterweight Emile Griffith Happy to Say Goodbye to 1962

Dec. 9, 1962 - Gloomy Emile Griffith, the haunted world welterweight champion, will not be unhappy to see 1962 come to an end. This has...

Dec 8, 2022

Griffith Wins Controversial TKO Victory Over Fernandez on Low Blow

Dec. 8, 1962 - Emile Griffith retained his welterweight crown last night on a controversial ninth-round TKO over Argentina’s Jorge...

Nov 30, 2022

Liston, Charging Police Harassment in Philadelphia, Moves to Chicago

Nov. 30, 1962 - Sonny Liston and his wife Geraldine moved to Chicago today because the heavyweight boxing champion of the world believes...

Nov 16, 2022

Liston: Clay Won’t Last Eight Seconds

Nov. 16, 1962 - World heavyweight champion Sonny Liston said today he would defend his title “wherever the price is right.” Both Liston...

Nov 16, 2022

Clay: I’ll KO Liston in 8 Rounds, Maybe 6

Nov. 16, 1962 - Following his devastating four-round victory over Archie Moore at the Los Angeles Sports Arena last night, cocky...

Nov 15, 2022

As He Predicted, Clay KO’s Moore in Fourth Round

Nov. 15, 1962 - Just as he predicted, brash young Cassius Clay knocked out aging Archie Moore tonight in 1 minute 35 seconds of the...

Nov 15, 2022

Clay-Moore Fight a Sellout

Nov. 15, 1962 - Cassius Clay takes the biggest step in his brief boxing career tonight when he enters the ring against the experienced...