October 26, 1966 Civic Auditorium - Sacramento, California Veteran Heavyweight - 35 year-old Zora Folley (207 lbs.) got the 'nod' over Henry...
September 1968 Ring Magazine *** Cassius Clay 1....Joe Frazier 2....Jimmy Ellis 3....Jerry Quarry 4....Oscar Bonavena 5....Manuel Ramos...
Henry's Manager, Joe Herman was trying to get one of the Top 10 Heavyweights to come to California to fight 'the gunslinger'. Joe didn't want...
June 1966, The 21 year-old Henry Clark was riding his 'unbeaten streak' to '9', and the San Franciso Heavyweight was already getting 'a look...
Her's a name if anyone wants to check. Sterling Belt from Jefferson City, Missouri. One of Charles Liston's 'burglary buddies'. Same age.
Charles Liston became 'Sonny' in prison. He was actually called 'Sonny Boy'.
In late-1966, The 'buzz' was out in San Francisco - this '21 year-old' kid looked good. 6' 3" and 212 lbs., fast hands and great endurance....
Angelo Dundee sent 'big' Mel Turnbow out to California to 'test' Henry in several sparring sessions as a 'test' for Cassius Clay. Mel Turnbow...
Charles Liston June 1951 (Missouri State Penitentiary - Jefferson City, Missouri) More spectators there, than in Lewiston, Maine (May 1965)...
Henry Clark,,,,,,,,, 'The Fastest Hands in the West' A noted 'gunslinger', who could talk as fast as his hands. [IMG]
There may be some information, in reported newspaper accounts of the Lucien Rodriguez vs. Steffan Tangstadt 'European Heavyweight Championship'...
Charles Liston went to jail (Missouri State Penitentiary) on January 15, 1950. His birth date is conjectural, as even the Missouri board of...
The WBA, quite frankly was somewhat confused with there earlier ratings. For the WBA Tournament, they kept shuffling the positions, and tried...
Saturday - May 20, 1978 The Forum - Inglewood, California On the undercard of the Pipino Cuevas vs. Billy Backus - WBA Welterweight...
'Panic in Detroit' Wednesday Night - July 24, 1968 (Olympia Stadium - Detroit, Michigan) 26 1/2 year-old, Eduardo 'El Gato' Corletti, the #2...
