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...Olympics in Helsinki when he was disqualified in the heavyweight finals for "not trying." More important, Johansson needed no manager to tell him the value of the world's richest boxing title-or how to exploit it. The son of a stonecutter, he was a gifted street brawler as a youth, got married at 17, fathered a son and daughter and was later divorced. But Johansson has long since settled down, is now a shrewd investor of his fight earnings, owns profitable construction and fishing companies in Sweden. For working 8 min. 3 sec. last week, Entrepreneur Johansson earned...
...away at his own grim routine of training, a cardboard sign warns the curious that visitors are unwelcome. The only fight that Carmen is worrying about is the fight with Robinson; the only strategy he is planning is to wade in punching. Each in his own way, the welterweight brawler and the big-talking middleweight boxer, are getting ready to punch a little life into the cooling corpse of professional prizefighting. They will square off next week at Yankee Stadium in one of the richest fist fights of a generation...
This was the way it had been when he was a kid in tough Utah mining towns, and punched out his right to play on the streets of Bingham and West Jordan. Last week's fight had hardly started before the broken-nosed, beetle-browed young brawler was sure he could win. After mixing it up in Madison Square Garden for six rounds with Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, Challenger Gene Fullmer, 25, walked back to his corner and said, "I can knock him out, Marv. Lemme open up and knock...
...speedboats zippered the straightaway and skittered hell-bent for trouble toward the first turn of the Gold Cup race for unlimited hydroplanes. The last heat boiled into a catfight between two river belles-Miss Thrijtway, a neat cream, orange and white number from Seattle, and Miss Pepsi, a Detroit brawler all tricked out in red, white and blue...
...France's youngest Deputy, a handsome, tough tavern brawler with a law degree, a kind of lowbrow intellectual primitive who is currently the darling of Paris café society. Son of a fisherman, he won a scholarship to study law in Paris, cut an impressive swath through the Latin Quarter's bistros and student clubs. After graduation, he volunteered for service in Indo-China as a parachutist ("I was tired of amateur fighting"), but got there too late to fight...