Word: criqui
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that there are no challenging featherweights on hand considerable enough to make it worth while wearing himself down to 126 pounds thereby risking his good health. He has fought for 14 years as a featherweight, but advancing age has brought flesh upon him. He won the title from Eugene Criqui in July, 1923, a month after Criqui had thrashed Johnny Kilbane, onetime champion. By no means "through," Dundee's present ambition is to fight Benny Leonard for the world's light-weight title...
When Danny Frush, English featherweight, met Eugene Criqui, ex-featherweight world's champion at Paris, the latter had a famed right, but it served him in a most "un-famed...
honors stood even. In the eighth, jabs became good honest punches and one from Frush caught "Gene" Criqui, his face already bloody and his eyes staring, on the jaw and he was counted out. After the fight, Danny Frush announced that he would sail to the U. S. and contest the world's featherweight championship with the present holder of the title, Johnny Dundee, who introduced him to astronomy in the ninth round of a fight which took place in 1922. The vanquished said, when interviewed at "his modest Montmartre mansion": "I am through. . . . No more fighting...
Featherweight Criqui (France...
Paris bristled with anger when the flash of the fight arrived. When details ticked in over the cables anger changed to pride. The press presented Eugene Criqui with three new titles to replace the one he lost: Criqui the Brave, True Frenchman, Cockerel Criqui...