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Ring-wise fight fans took it for granted that Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio would have a rough night at the Boston Garden. If Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds-so the speculation went-home-town officials would give him the title. All afternoon before the bout, odds on the champ dropped accordingly. By fight time, the price was 6 to 5. Basilio's handlers filed an angry beef with the Massachusetts Boxing Commission. "What gives?" wailed Co-Manager Johnny de John. "My boy is getting a bum deal...
...champion's corner, only Basilio himself seemed unconcerned. The one-time onion farmer from Canastota, N.Y. had taken the title away from DeMarco with a twelfth-round technical knockout last June; he saw no reason why he could not do as well again...
...pier-six brawl in Syracuse, N.Y., Carmen Basilio. 28. sharp-featured son of a Canastota. N.Y.. onion farmer, spent twelve rounds trading punches with Welterweight Champion Tony De Marco before he battered the stubborn Bostonian senseless and stumbled off with the title...
Cavalcade of Sports (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). A 15-round bout for the welterweight championship of the world: Tony DeMarco v. Carmen Basilio...
...next six rounds, Basilio shot in punch after punch. Then the champion went to work at long distance, slicing Basilio with knifelike lefts, belting him under the heart with his famed bolo punch. From the tenth round on, Basilio's left eye was swollen shut; he fought on half-blind, but when he landed one, the champion's knees buckled. At the 14th round, the crowd was on its feet cheering; at the 15th, the roar drowned out the bell-both champion and challenger kept slugging away until the referee stepped in. On the officials' score cards...