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• #14145K: THE CASSIUS CLAY VS. HENRY COOPER FIGHT

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  1963-06-18, WOR, 31 min.

  • Cassius Clay
  • Henry Cooper
  • Muhammed Ali
  • Tommy Little
  • Simon Smith
  • W. Barrington Dalby

  This rare radio transcription was exclusively broadcast on WOR Radio at 4:30 EST through the cooperation of ABC Radio and The British Broadcasting Corporation. It is repeated hours later on WOR for those who missed the entire coverage of the fight, pre fight reporting, including Simon Smith commenting on the extraordinary persona of Cassius Clay,  blow by blow coverage of the fight round by round by BBC's Simon Smith and in between round analysis by BBC's W. Barrington Dalby who at one point remarks "This is unbelievable."
  
  This broadcast is continuous non-stop coverage of this live event with many celebrities at ringside including Robert Mitchum and Elizabeth Taylor.  
  
  We hear ring coverage prior to the fight and all five rounds. 
  Afterwards post fight analysis and evaluations are heard. 
  
  NOTE: THIS IS NOT WHAT APPEARS ON YOU TUBE. IT IS AN EXCLUSIVE AIR CHECK THAT ONLY ARCHIVAL TELEVISION POSSESS. 
  
  Following his narrow victory over Doug Jones in Madison Square Garden in New York City, Cassius Clay (before he changed his name to Muhammad Ali) meets British heavyweight Henry Cooper at Wembley Stadium in London, England. This was the first open air show at Wembley since WW2. Following a fourth-round knockdown in which Clay was nearly knocked out, he comes back in the fifth round to score a TKO over Cooper as the referee Tommy Little stopped the fight.                         

• #14145N: NEWS, THE

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  1963-06-18, , min.

  • Cassius Clay
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Henry Cooper

  Cassius Clay defeats Henry Cooper via TKO in round 5 of their heavyweight fight, comments by Englishmen, pre-fight interviews with both Henry Cooper and Cassius Clay.                        

• #14249A: CASSIUS CLAY INTERVIEW WITH CLURE MOSHER: HY GARDNER SHOW

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  1963-08-01, WOR, 5 min.

  • Hy Gardner
  • Charles Laughton
  • Bobby Rydell
  • Cassius Clay
  • Muhammad Ali
  • Henry Cooper
  • Clure Mosher

  On HY GARDNER SHOW, an excerpt replay of Heavyweight boxing contender Cassius Clay's (Muhammad Ali)  interview with WOR-TV sports reporter Clure Mosher, originally broadcast the middle of May 1963 prior to Clay flying to London to fight reigning British Heavyweight Champion, Henry Cooper. 
  
  Cassius Clay tells Clure Mosher that he wants to fight "the bear" Sonny Liston. He states, "I want him three months after Patterson. I'm going to get this man out of the way. He is nothing."
  
  Mosher replies, "Liston is a big, stern and mean-looking man, Cassius. I fear he would just scare you to death getting in the ring with him."
  
  Cassius Clay: "I'm just too crazy to be scared."
  
  Clure Mosher: "I think you're going to do very well and make a lot of money. And, as a matter of fact, you and Patterson may go down in history, as far as I am concerned, as being two of the boxers around having made more money with less talent than anybody."
  
  Cassius Clay: "You are just getting off the subject. You just talk too much. I'm sorry I have to go to bed. I have a fight coming up and I don't want to see you unless I'm in the ring. I'm through."
  
   Clay walks out on the interview.
  
  Returning back to the Hy Gardner Show,  Hy Gardner comments on this moment as does Hy's guest, Bobby Rydell, a friend of Cassius Clay. Gardner
   
  Hy Gardner states to Rydell, "Did you ever see anything like that?" Now, this was Cassius Clay. I don't know if he just got mad and walked out or this was just showmanship?"   
  
  Hy's guest, Bobby Rydell remarks that he thinks it was showmanship. Gardner remembers only one time that a guest on his show quit on him on the air, naming Charles Laughton.  
  
  Gardner:"I think it is great when someone does walk out on you. Is this the real  Cassius Clay or Cassius Clay the image?"  
  Rydell  mentions that he recently spent three days in Miami with Clay and thinks he is great for boxing predicting nine out of ten times the round he will beat his opponents. 
  
  Hy comments that during the Clure Mosher interview Clay amazingly called the exact round he would defeat his next opponent. 
  
  NOTE: One month after the May 1963 Clure Mosure interview, Cassius Clay predictably KO'd Henry Cooper in five rounds on June 18, 1963). 
  
  NOTE: The Cassius Clay May 1963 television interview by Clure Mosher is the earliest known extant one on one studio interview of Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) known at this time.  
  
  NOTE: See ATA#14145K aircheck audio of the broadcast of the Henry Cooper vs Cassius Clay fight.