Cassius Clay vs. Don Warner

1962 boxing match

Date

February 28, 1962

Venue

Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, Florida

Tale of the tape

Boxer	Cassius Clay	Don Warner
Nickname	"The Louisville Lip"
Hometown	Louisville, Kentucky	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pre-fight record	11–0 (8 KO)	12–6–2 (11 KO)
Age	20 years, 1 month	22 years, 6 months
Height	6 ft 3 in (191 cm)	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	195 lb (88 kg)	189+1⁄2 lb (86 kg)
Style	Orthodox	Orthodox
Recognition	1960 Olympic light heavyweight Gold Medalist

Result

Clay defeated Warner by 4th round TKO

Cassius Clay vs. Don Warner was a professional boxing match contested on February 28, 1962.

Background

Clay fought a ten-round boxing match with Don Warner in Miami Beach.

The fight

Clay won the fight through a technical knockout after the referee stopped the fight in the fourth round.

Aftermath

Warner would later serve as a sparring partner for Joe Frazier.

Undercard

Confirmed bouts:

References

"Cassius Clay vs. Don Warner". boxrec.com. BoxRec. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
"Cassius Clay KO's Warner". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. 1 March 1962. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
"Cassius Clay Stops Warner in 4 Rounds". Star-News. 1 March 1962. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
Thomas Hauser (1991). Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. Simon & Schuster. pp. 38.
Felix Dennis & Don Atyeo (2003). Muhammad Ali: The Glory Years. miramax books. p. 46.
"In This Corner … The Official Heavyweight Champ". The New York Times. 15 November 1970. Retrieved 8 October 2016.
Michael Ezra (2009). Muhammad Ali:The Making of an Icon. Temple University Press. p. 35.
"BoxRec - event".

Preceded byvs. Sonny Banks	Cassius Clay's bouts 28 February 1962	Succeeded byvs. George Logan
Preceded byvs. Orie Paschall	Don Warner's bouts 28 February 1962	Succeeded byvs. Orie Paschall

Muhammad Ali

Fights

Media

Books	The Greatest: My Own Story (1975 autobiography) The Fight (1975) Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times (1991 biography) The Tao of Muhammad Ali (1997) King of the World (1998 biography) Facing Ali (2002) Muhammad Ali: The Glory Years (2002 biography) The Soul of a Butterfly (2004 autobiography) Twelve Rounds to Glory (2007 biography) Ali: A Life (2018 biography)
Documentaries	Whicker's World (1967 episode) a.k.a. Cassius Clay (1970) When We Were Kings (1996) The Last Round: Chuvalo vs. Ali (2003) Facing Ali (2009) When Ali Came to Ireland (2012) The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013) I Am Ali (2014) Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century (2019 episode) What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019) Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali (2021) Muhammad Ali (2021 series)
Other films and series	Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) The Super Fight (1970) The Greatest (1977) I Am the Greatest: The Adventures of Muhammad Ali (1977 animated series) King of the World (2000 TV film) Ali: An American Hero (2000 TV film) Ali (2001) Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight (2013 TV film) One Night in Miami... (2020)
Music and performance	I Am the Greatest (1963 album) "Black Superman (Muhammad Ali)" (1974 song) The Adventures of Ali and His Gang vs. Mr. Tooth Decay (1976 album) "Muhammad Ali" (2001 song) "The World's Greatest" (2002 song) Approaching Ali (2013 opera) One Night in Miami (2013 play)
Comics and video games	Superman vs. Muhammad Ali (1978 comic book) Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing (1992 video game) Foes of Ali (1995 video game)

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