Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Either Frank Dewar or Larry Wilde will battle in the 147-pound class, Pete Hiam is registered for 137-pound competition, Captain John Lee will battle in the 130-pound class, and Don Fern is scheduled to fight in the 123-pound bout...
Down two men, the Crimson allowed Paul Whelan to score from a scramble nine seconds later. Rodenhiser and Ned Almy staged a light wrestling bout at 14:48. Both were banished. The manpower count was now 5 to 4, B.U. leading, because according to the rules, Almy didn't serve his penalty until O'Brien's expired...
...popularity. Not until he was close to the end of his career did he fire the imagination of the fans, who always like a slugger better than a boxing perfectionist. Beaten once on points by Jake La-Motta (in the second of their six matches), Robinson lost his second bout and his middleweight championship to Britain's Randy Turpin in 1951. Some 60,000 turned up at the Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth-round comeback and knocked Turpin...
Cinerama officials are already planning to shoot feature films. The new medium, they claim, will in time replace most flat-screen movies. While many moviegoers are ready to accept this prediction, some agree with one owl-eyed critic who said, after a bout with Cinerama: "They're riding a two-wheeler, but they've never learned to walk...
Jersey Joe Walcott "unretired" yesterday to set up a return bout with Rocky Marciano. The fighters already are signed to an agreement calling for a rematch within 90 days. The 90 days clause will undoubtedly be waived, however. Marciano's manager said his fighter needs a rest and won't fight until after January first, but "if Walcott wants a return match, he's got it." Walcott's manager replied that he would'nt quibble about the postponement...