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...four rounds, it was the younger Basilio who first showed signs of wear. His strength was ebbing; in close, Robby tied him up with ease. When Basilio stood off and tried to box, stinging jabs thrust him off balance. Then a vicious uppercut landed flush on his left eye. Within seconds it swelled shut. Basilio was lost behind that ugly, blue-black eight ball for the rest of the fight...
Behind the Eight Ball. Heedless of the confusion, the two fighters worked hard with their fists. Basilio plodded forward, willing to soak up punishment as he pushed close enough to pound Robby around the short ribs. Sugar Ray stabbed and ran. Whenever the Chittenango (N.Y.) onion farmer caught him, Robby covered himself nicely in the clinches. The handsome Harlem hot shot was a reasonable facsimile of the man who was once the fanciest fighter in the prize ring, but he was no longer the swift-punching dancing master who had moved up from the welterweights to terrorize the middleweights...
Blinder Than Basilio. Carmen kept punching. And the beaten little man was not the only one who had trouble seeing straight. Referee Frank Sikora watched him wade into punch after punch, yet gave him round after round. ("What else was you going to do? Body punches? Wooh! He made the fight with them, so I give it to him.") The New York Herald Tribune's Jesse Abramson, a ringside veteran, insisted that the judges who finally overruled Referee Sikora were blinder than Basilio. The punch that closed Carmen's eye, wrote Abramson, was an "incredible piece of luck...
...Robby who threw the eye-closing punch, and came closer to the basic objective of boxing: to separate the other man from his senses. A couple of times he connected so cleanly that Basilio's knees seemed almost to come unhinged. Robby looked as exhausted as his opponent when the fight ended, but the man who comes back had come back again, and he had done it with authority. "Daddy is the greatest," exulted Ray's lovely wife Edna Mae. "Nobody ever beats Daddy twice...
...Manhattan's TelePrompTer Corp., the fight was boxing's biggest closed-circuit theater-TV presentation. Often fuzzy and unfocused, the large-screen picture even lit up some regular boxing arenas with the flicker of new-style programs to come. In Texas, and in upstate New York, where Basilio is a popular local hero, enterprising matchmakers put on live preliminaries before they dimmed the house lights, hooked up projectors, placed screens in the ring, and tuned in the main bout. Only in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Orlando, Fla., did equipment fail, and force promoters to return their take. When...