Article first appeared at Roundtable Boxing

When Tunney Hunsaker, a much loved 30-year-old police office from Fayetteville, West Virginia with hands so large his Mother would compare them to an elephant’s feet, stepped in to the ring on the 29th October 1960 it is hard to imagine any of the 6,180 people in attendance could have predicted that his opponent, Cassius Clay, would go on to become the most transcendent sports figure of all time.