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Snoopbee had asked some time ago in 2008 what became of 1960's heavyweight contender and Harlem Barber Billy Daniels.

http://www.boxrec.com/media/index.php/Billy_Daniels


I think I may have a lead,which I will post tomorrow.

In the mean time here is a clip from Cassius Clay vs Billy Daniels
May.19.1962.

Daniels came into this fight with an undefeated record of 16-0-0
and Clay's record was 13-0-0.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh6QILWk8Dc

PS anyone know if Steven Brunt the author of the book FACING ALI,tried to locate Billy Daniels?

..i remember watching the daniels/"clay" fight on live tv and i wasn't highly impressed by clay ... at least in terms of his being ready to fight for the title....something he and his handlers, if no one else , were talking about already. I haven't seen it since, but as i recall daniels was doing okay and he was about as tall as clay and was landing good straight hands. In fact i felt he was in the lead and then it was...what...stopped on eye cuts on daniels?

i think i saw him against cleveland williams ...i'm not going to check the record book to see if they fought...and they both looked stiff and not doing much. if this is the fight i'm thinking of, i was performing at a club and it was on between shows and when i said they didn't look very mobile a guy in the dressing room where we were watching said, "hey...what do you expect? they're heavyweights. they don't move like the littler guys" and i said they didn't move much like the bigger guys either.

I can't get YouTube so I'm interested in what those who can have to say about the "clay" fight.

Plus, I do wonder what ever happened to daniels and hope someone comes up with an update.

jaclem2 wrote:..i remember watching the daniels/"clay" fight on live tv and i wasn't highly impressed by clay ... at least in terms of his being ready to fight for the title....something he and his handlers, if no one else , were talking about already. I haven't seen it since, but as i recall daniels was doing okay and he was about as tall as clay and was landing good straight hands. In fact i felt he was in the lead and then it was...what...stopped on eye cuts on daniels?

i think i saw him against cleveland williams ...i'm not going to check the record book to see if they fought...and they both looked stiff and not doing much. if this is the fight i'm thinking of, i was performing at a club and it was on between shows and when i said they didn't look very mobile a guy in the dressing room where we were watching said, "hey...what do you expect? they're heavyweights. they don't move like the littler guys" and i said they didn't move much like the bigger guys either.

I can't get YouTube so I'm interested in what those who can have to say about the "clay" fight.

Plus, I do wonder what ever happened to daniels and hope someone comes up with an update.

Daniels and Cleveland Williams fought twice - Williams won both.

Billy Daniels was/is 6 feet 4 inches tall with a 82 inch reach.
He was listed in the top 5 of Ali's opponents prior to fighting Sonny Liston.
He was ranked either fourth or fifth,behind Doug Jones,Henry Cooper,Alejandro Lavorante and Alex Miteff.

Billy Daniels moved back to North Carolina from NYC when he retired.
Here is an interview with him from the Wilmington(NC)Star-News, dated July.6.2006.
He was or may still be living in Reigelwood,Columbus County North Carolina.
He was 68 years old when they interviewed him here.

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hn ... 1631873&dq

Bump.Hey Snoopbee I came across this news article from 2006 about Billy Daniels from the google newspaper archives.