Word: bobo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Carl ("Bobo") Olson is a lean (5 ft. 10½ in.) and hungry-looking; middleweight (160 Ibs.), who learned to defend himself in the tough Kaliki section of Honolulu, where street-fighting is a normal pastime. Paddy Young is a stocky (5 ft. 8 in.) middleweight, who learned his punching as a stevedore on Manhattan's rough & tumble waterfront...
...Queensberry niceties, met for the American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a world title bout with European Champion Randy Turpin in August. Punching Paddy Young's campaign plan was simple: bore in swinging for a knockout. Bobo Olson, a far fancier fighter, figured to win on points...
...Bobo quickly proved that he is one of the best dancing masters of the modern ring. Circling in a leftward two-step to avoid Paddy Young's sharp left hook, feinting, bobbing and weaving, he made Paddy miss more often than he hit. Meanwhile, from Bobo's own rights and lefts came a tattoo of light, flicking jabs, hooks, crosses, counters and slaps...
...eighth round, confidently careless, Bobo caught one of Paddy's wild hooks flush in the face and faltered. But he recovered and went back to the business of demolishing Paddy with a barrage of flicks. Sturdy Paddy Young did not go lown, but he seemed to grow perceptibly older and slower...
...London, British Middleweight (160 Ibs.) Champion Randy Turpin* scored a dull but decisive 15-round decision over France's Charles Humez. To settle the succession to the world title, vacated when Sugar Ray Robinson retired, Turpin will next meet the winner of the coming fight between Carl ("Bobo") Olson and Paddy Young...