Word: champion
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Berlin, March 19--Promoter Walter Rothenburg has Max Schmeling signed to box Max Baer for the world heavyweight championship and is seeking a site for the bout, but has not been able to come to terms with the champion, he said today...
...offer of $300,000 of Baer brought from the champion a demand for a guarantee, with the privilege of taking a percentage of the gate receipts...
Rothonburg, promoter of the recent Schmeling-Steve Hamas bout, will visit Rome, Vienna, London and other European cities soon to determine where to hold the title match, when--and if--the champion signs...
...find a suitable opponent for heavyweight Champion Max Baer is the problem that has vexed Madison Square Garden's Matchmaker Jimmy Johnston ever since Baer won the title from Primo Camera last June. Camera is still the right size, but the U. S. public refuses to believe that he can fight. First step toward clearing up the matter was made last week in Hamburg, Germany, where Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, who held the heavyweight championship in 1930-32, started an attempt to get it back with a bout against Steve Hamas, onetime Penn State footballer who thrashed...
Paris, March 17--The International Boxing Union tonight dethroned Prime Carnera as European heavyweight champion and placed the title in open competition because the Italian former world champion failed to meet Pierre Charles of Belgium...