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Both Machen, the No. 2 heavyweight contender, and Williams, ranked No. 5, climbed into the ring hoping to come out with a clearcut right to challenge the Sonny Liston-Floyd Patterson winner for the title. Machen came out unscarred, Williams had a cut on the mouth and a mouse over his right eye. Williams, a powerful left hooker, shook Machen in the 3rd and 8th rounds. Machen scored heavily with his effective counter-punching." -The Fresno Bee

Both fighters received $22,000 apiece from the gate

Post fight Comment:

"In a way he's tougher to fight than Liston because he has the speed the other doesn't have. You can't walk around Cleveland like you can Liston." -Eddie Machen

dOES footage exist of this ?

Eddie would probably have enjoyed that fight more than when he went to Sweden in 1958 expecting an easy payday and a shot at Floyd Patterson's World Heavyweight title after fighting a draw with Zora Folley. Instead he knocked cold in 2:16 by Ingemar Johansson and did not get a title shot until he went up against Ernie Terrell years later, with Eddie on the decline.

Shane he did not get a shot at Floyd before fighting Ingo.

You know before George Foreman even qualified to go to the Olympics Summer of 1968,,he had sparred with Cleveland Williams.
Man,I like to see that footage if it exists.

There's no footage of this fight that I'm aware of, but wouldn't have such an important fight (it was supposed to be a HW title eliminator) been on TV?