The joke said "I went to the fights last night and a hockey game broke out". Todays blog is not about a hockey fight or series of brawls on the ice. I have writen about hockey on many occasions but have not written very much on the sport of Boxing. Today we write about one of the many great heavyweight boxing matches through the years where the title changed hands.
In 1962 Charles L. "Sonny" Liston won the Heavyweight title by beating then champion Floyd Patterson. A rematch was held the following summer, Liston won the rematch as well. His second title defence was set for February 25, 1964 against a very brash, young, up and coming fighter named Cassius Clay. Clay was an Olympic Gold Metalist known for for his loud brash comments. The fight was held in Miami Beach, Florida. Liston was a 7 to 1 favorite over the young Clay. The fight was a good one for six rounds. Liston failed to come out of his corner for the 7th round and lost his title.
A week later Clay announced that he was changing his name to Muhammad Ali. Fifteen months later, a rematch was held. This time Ali knocked out the former champ in the first round. Liston took some time off, tried to make a comeback but died at the end of 1970. Ali went on to become a great champion, working very hard to live up to his self proclaimed title "The Greatest".
The answer to yesterdays trivia question is 13 clubs were in the Continental Basketball Association for the 1987-88 season. Two clubs had their league debut with this season, 10 of the 13 clubs had debuted at the beginning of the 1985-86 season or later. Clearly the Lancaster Red Roses, who were an original member of the Eastern Basketball League in 1946, was then in a run from 1975-91 was the senior member of the league.
Todays question is how many regular season games have been played by the National Hockey League clubs in the month of September? The answer will be posted in tomorrows daily blog about a record hockey brawl.
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