Word: bouting
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...Onetime heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling: a bout against blond young Walter Neusel. watched by the biggest German prizefight crowd (100,000) on record; when Neusel failed to leave his corner of the ring for the ninth round: in Hamburg...
...Hugh S. Johnson and Donald Richberg, head of the President's executive council, were in a hard hitting bout tonight over the future...
...Tony Canzoneri: the right to meet Barney Ross in a return bout for the world's lightweight championship; by defeating Frankie Klick of San Francisco, by a technical knockout, in 9 rounds; in Brooklyn...
...Browning would willingly sacrifice a title which has been worth $75,000 a year to each, the New York State Athletic Commission authorized Promoter Jack Curley-who had arranged the match because wrestling gate receipts have lately declined-to disregard the ruling which says that in New York wrestling bouts are "exhibitions" not "contests." The crowd (35,000) was the biggest at a wrestling match since the one which saw Frank Gotch defeat George Hacken-schmidt in 1911 in a bout which appeared so fraudulent that no professional wrestling has been conducted in daylight since...
Twenty minutes after the bout began, Londos applied his favorite hold, a Japanese armlock. Browning broke it, retaliated with the "airplane scissors" which he learned by wrapping his legs around a flour barrel on his Indiana farm. Planning to become a professional fisticuffer when he ends his career as wrestler, Browning cuffed Londos on the nose. Londos whacked his opponent on the ear, adroitly tripped him, twisted his foot in a toe hold. Wrestling bouts continue un til one contestant or the other is too tired or too dazed to function normally. After an hour and ten minutes, Londos last...