Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BOXING: Jack Dempsey (251), Joe Louis (104), Henry Armstrong...
Garrulous Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 67, knows how it feels to manage real champions; he handled both Jack Dempsey* and Mickey Walker. He dismisses all the big fellows fighting today with one word-"Bums"-but adds quickly that he is handling "the best bum of the lot." His bum is Light Heavyweight Joey Maxim (real name: Joseph Antonio Berardinelli), 26, a clever, stand-up boxer from Cleveland with a machine-gun left and an accurate right...
...them arrived in Britain for Maxim's go at the light-heavyweight title, Kearns got on his soapbox as soon as the Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton. "Joey," he proclaimed, "takes a punch better than any fighter I ever handled, and that goes for both Dempsey and Walker." Without much doubt, 174-lb. Joey Maxim had been underrated too long. What the trade knows as a "spoiler," i.e., a clever boxer who enjoys making less refined punchers look like chumps, he has taken a lot of the bounce out of better-known heavyweights. Four years ago, Joe Louis observed...
...poll of sportwriters last week, Dempsey was the overwhelming choice (251 votes) for fighter of the half-century. Second: Joe Louis with 104 votes...