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Title: Alejandro Lavorante vs Cassius Clay
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Miller, Larry
Date Created and/or Issued: 1962
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Used in the Exhibit: Play by Play - A Century of L.A. Sports Photography, 1889-1989
"Lavorante will fall in five," proclaimed 20-year old Cassius Clay, nicknamed "The Mouth," before his fight with Alejandro Lavorante at the L.A. Sports Area. That night, Clay knocked out the Argentine heavyweight with a left hook in the...fifth round. Later that year, Lavorante fought John Riggins at the Olympic Auditorium. Knocked out in the sixth round, he slipped into a coma and died. Photo dated: July 20, 1962.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00049072
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box.; HE-001-991 4x5
CARL0000052857
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/17288
Subject: Ali, Muhammad,--1942-2016
Lavorante, Alejandro
Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Boxers (Sports)--California--Los Angeles
Boxing--California--Los Angeles
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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