Word: championing
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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...
...Middleweight Champion Tony Zale (see below). Light-Heavyweight Champion Gus Lesnevich...
...fight had "gone across the river" to Jersey. In one corner last week, black-browed and confident, sat Rocky Graziano, onetime Army deserter, middleweight 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...
...Zale, a champion once more and richer by $60,000 (Graziano's share of the purse: $120,000), went back to his dressing room, put in his store-teeth, and announced that he would fight any challenger-anyone, that is, but Roughhouse Rocky, whose one & only claim to glory, the power of his fists, had failed...
...since chunky Gene Sarazen did it 26 years ago had a golfer won the P.G.A. and the Open the same summer. It looked as if big-time golf had again found a man it could call champion...