Word: ezzard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, after winning a twelve-round decision in a nontitle bout with Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim, ex-Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles gave a dressing-room interview. Said the ranking contender for another crack at the title Joe Walcott took away from him last July: "I think I can whip anyone in the world until they beat...
Former heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles made the first big jump up the comeback trail last night with a technical knockout over 23-year-old Rex Layne of Salt Lake City in 2:32 of the 11th round...
...boys along Jacob's Beach had never thought much of Joey Maxim as a light heavyweight champion. For 19 months he had refused to risk his title, though he had ventured once into the heavyweight class and taken a tremendous 15-round belting from then-Champion Ezzard Charles. He might be able to box, but he was never a puncher. The boys thought a lot more of Irish Bob Murphy, a redheaded, left-handed brawler who had scored eight knockouts in ten bouts this year. As a 5-to-12 fight-time favorite, Murphy would undoubtedly cut the hapless...
...first round, nearly knocked him out in the fourth) thought Jersey Joe got a raw decision then. In the 21 years he has been bouncing around the fight game, Jersey Joe has had a lot of tough breaks. In all, Joe tried four times against Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles. Last week in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field before the largest fight crowd (28,-272) of the year, Jersey Joe got his last chance at the world heavyweight title...
...world this year: 4:07.8; in London. ¶Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, his 36th straight victory, over clumsy Rex Layne, with a crushing sixth-round knockout; in New York. Marciano's showing put him in line to take on the winner of September's heavyweight championship fight between Ezzard Charles and Joe Louis. ¶Tony Trabert, the National clay court tennis title, in an upset over U.S. Champion Art Larsen, 6-8, 2-6, 6-4, 6-3, 8-6; in Chicago. ¶ Victor Seixas, the Spring Lake invitation tennis tournament, over Bill Talbert...