Percy Price '1960 Olympic Heavyweight'

hhascup · Jul 7, 2021

Dubblechin said: ↑

I posted that excerpt the other day. That was from the writer from the Louisville paper who kept getting his facts wrong. What you left out was the same writer wrote:

Louisville's Cassius Clay is being moved up to the heavyweight division on the United States Olympic boxing team. He is to replace Percy Price Jr. of Philadelphia in the No. 1 spot on the American outfit. Clay competed for the light heavyweight assignment and won it in the Olympic Trials at San Francisco in June. The switch is being made because Clay defeated Price quite easily in winning the National Golden Gloves heavyweight championship.

He clearly stated Ali beat Price in the National Golden Gloves. They didn't fight in the National Golden Gloves. Price wasn't even a participant in that tournament.

And he wrote that in July, before the finals in Fort Dix. Then the same writer came back two weeks later and said Clay had to go back to light heavy because Hudson broke his hand. The Louisville newspaper wasn't a juggernaut in the newspaper biz and the city wasn't exactly a boxing hub. Cassius Clay was the local celebrity and this reporter clearly wasn't up on even who was fighting in other tournaments. He was all over the place with his stories.

Nobody else reported anything like this. It was all Price won the Trials at heavyweight. Clay won the trials at light heavyweight. Price beat Clay "before the Olympics" or Price beat Clay at "the trials" which were also what the bouts held Aug. 3 and Aug. 4 in Fort Dix were called by United Press International.

Anyway, I just posted to try to help you figure out where they fought. You kept asking. You didn't think they ever fought. So I tried to provide some answers.

I've kind of lost interest now. (LOL)
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I see your point and I am grateful for all the information. All I am saying is that there is no official bout between the two, but it seems that they at least shared the same ring with each other. I just wish there was an accurate report on it!

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