Word: baer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before another round had ended, the sentimentally pro-Louis crowd had the answer. The doomsday lefts & rights that won Joe the title from Braddock, and turned Max Schmeling and Max Baer to butter, were gone. For a dozen years Louis had been the best in the business, but the years had run out on him. At 218 Ibs., 17 over his prime weight, he was a paunchy shadow of the Brown Bomber. Charles spotted Louis 33^ Ibs., but he out-jabbed and outsmarted him almost...
...Prizefighters Max Baer (onetime world's heavyweight champion) and Maxie Rosenbloom (onetime world's light-heavyweight champion), in Hollywood to co-star in a series of slapstick detective comedies, clownishly announced that "we have been saving our art for a major vehicle . . . We may become as inseparable as the Lunts...
...Rome, Boxer-turned-Cinemactor Buddy (Jacob Jr.) Baer, hulking (6 ft. 6½ in.) brother of ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer, came out second best in a tussle with the King of Beasts. Passing by a lion's cage on the set of MGM's Quo Vadis, Buddy scarcely had time to duck when a big paw shot through the bars, ripped his shirt from shoulder to waist, clawed an inch-deep gash in his left...
Christians. Human brawn would be well represented by two outsized wrestlers, and hulking Nightclub Singer Buddy Baer in the role of Ursus, the heroine's bodyguard...
Died. Joe Gould, 53, manager of prizefighters, including onetime Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Jersey Jim") Braddock-with whom he never signed a formal contract until the title bout with Max Baer, relying instead on a simple handshake agreement; of leukemia; in Manhattan...