Word: champ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word went round Jersey Joe Walcott's training camp that Champion Joe Louis was worried. He actually sent a spy over to scout the enemy. But when the champ's agent arrived, Walcott's men gave him the eye-and the bum's rush. They had him halfway out the door before Jersey Joe intervened. "Let him watch," he ordered. Then Challenger Walcott, using pillowy 16-oz. gloves, neatly flattened a sparring partner. Said he: "Tell Nicholson to take that back to Louis...
Walcott's big advantage over the Champ, who has been on top too long to be hungry, is incentive. No one doubted that the old Joe Louis could knock Joe Walcott stiff in a round or two. The big question, to be answered next week in Yankee Stadium, is whether the present-day Joe Louis can still beat anybody-even a deserving never-was like hungry Jersey...
...champion and boxing's worst foot forward (he is barred in New York and in Illinois). The boys in the ringside seats noticed the pimples on his back and recalled stories that 26-year-old Rocky had been eating high off the hog since people began calling him "champ...
Fuller will compete in the Eastern trials to be held at Albany in two weeks against "Cokey" Wallace, the amateur champ, among others. Winners of this bracket will gain entrance to the finals with champions and runner-ups going to London to compete in the Olympic bouts which begin in the middle of July...
Before she knew it, people were shaking her hand and calling her "Champ." She planted a consolation kiss on Darrell's reluctant cheek. What would she do with the $500? Her mother thought she ought to save it for college. Said beaming Mrs. Chappelear: "I only finished high school. My husband almost finished college. I'm sure Jean will make...