Word: ezzard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billed as one of the big fights of the summer, but nobody was taken in. Heavyweight Challenger Freddie Beshore, less skillful than stubborn, was never a dashing performer. And pencil-mustached Ezzard Charles, though heavyweight champion of the world (National Boxing Association version, not good...
...friends and well-wishers were of one mind: "Say it ain't so, Joe." Last week Joe Louis said it was so. Harried by income-tax debts of about $200,000, Joe announced that he would fight again in September. His probable opponent: 29-year-old Ezzard Charles...
There was a sporting British cheer for the new light-heavyweight champion. The loudest voice of all was that of Manager Kearns, who felt so good he decided he might as well claim the heavyweight championship too. He told London: "The N.B.A. calls Ezzard Charles the champion. You guys call Bruce Woodcock the champ. So why shouldn't I call my guy the champ? Let 'em all be champs...