Word: bressette
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...hottest bout was between two raw rookies, one from Philadelphia, the other from Detroit. Neither had ever boxed before, and they hammered each other with haymakers for four rounds to a draw (necessitating a return match this week). But the loudest yells were for a heavyweight, Private Clarence Bressett of the notoriously vociferous cannon company, who, though ten pounds lighter than his opponent, knocked him clear across the ring with a right uppercut that sounded like the explosion of a 60-mm. mortar shell...
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