Word: braddock
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...roster as ever climbed into a ring. In honor of the occasion they squared off for a few photographic passes : double-chinned Mickey Walker, looking very little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...
...family (his brother is a prize fighter), Chester is often depressed, fears that poverty may prevent him from going to college and becoming a doctor. Once a white man chased him with a gun because, while hawking newspapers, Chester refused to stop yelling: "Louis K.O.'s Braddock." Chester says he hates white people. When white folks humiliate him, he "sees red," but is afraid to fight back...
...world's heavyweight championship were two washed-up fighters: Barkeep Tony Galento, a beer-bibbing ham-&-egger who had never heard of the Marquess of Queensberry, and Madcap Maxie Baer, who had been floundering around in the second division since losing his world's title to Jim Braddock in 1935. Both were over 30, had already been knocked out by Champion Joe Louis...
...professional fights, last week's performance was Louis' 39th knockout, his eleventh successful defense (a record) of the title he took from Jim Braddock just three years...
...York from his native Chile three months ago, Arturo Godoy was scarcely noticed by U. S. sportswriters. They remembered that he lad visited the U. S. twice before (in 1933 and 1937), that his greatest feat had been outroughing Tony Galento in a six-round preliminary bout on the Braddock-Louis championship card in June 1937. That he would not last four rounds against the Brown Bomber was the general prediction. Some openly complained that he had no right in the same ring with Louis, that his best punch could hardly knock down Joe's little sister Eulalie...