Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professional boxer, fight day is a solemn day, and World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson takes it as solemnly as lesser men. There are no high jinks, none of the footloose fun of other days. It is a time for early morning prayer, which Sugar Ray makes in any handy church, denomination immaterial. It is a day for not shaving (to keep the skin tough), a day for a tea & toast breakfast-nothing more. It is a day of long minutes in a narrow, chilly dressing room, while a manager and trainer swap yarns to break the tension...
Bratton, 23, a stand-up boxer with a stabbing left, a rough right and some of the fanciest footwork in the business, was up against a wily, hit & run boxer who attacks in flurries, shifts into a weaving defense designed to make his opponent look like a floundering club fighter. For the first two minutes of Round One Gavilan stuck right to the script, bouncing in to pepper Bratton from his low crouch, bouncing back away again to duck Bratton's right. Then he caught Bratton flush in the face with a jolting right cross, followed it up with...
Gavilan went after Bratton with a will, but never with a knockout punch. Shifty-footed Johnny Bratton crowded right back, but the sting in his right seemed to have been dulled. For the next six rounds it was a boxer's fight, a brilliant display of punch and counter without knockdowns or clinches. After that, it was all Gavilan. The judges' decision, while hordes of Gavilan's rabid rooters crashed through police barriers into the ring, with Cuban flags flying: unanimous for Gavilan...
Long Count. In Washington, D.C., after taking the count in the first round, Boxer James Walker staggered up from the canvas to challenge a jeering ring fan, who promptly floored him again with one haymaker...
Between his studies and his social life, Roosevelt taught Sunday school. He later wrote that he thought his companions would look down on him for this if he "had not also been a corking boxer, a good runner, and a genial member of the Porcellian Club...