Word: ezzard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Heavyweight Rex Layne, 22, over Bob Satterfield, by an eight-round knockout, to make clumsy, hard-punching Layne the newest member of the I-want-a-shot-at-Ezzard-Charles club...
...Ezzard Charles retained his world heavyweight champion's title as he won a unanimous 15 round decision from Jersey Joe Walcott in Detroit last night. It was 37-year-old Walcott's fourth try at the title...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio & TV). Ezzard Charles v. Joe Walcott...
Since he won the heavyweight championship in 1949, Ezzard Charles has knocked out five of the six challengers for his title without convincing fight fans that he is a worthy successor to Joe Louis. In Madison Square Garden last week, against reformed Playboy Lee Oma, 34, Charles tried again...
Champion Charles had not convinced the fans. They made the Garden ring with their verdict: boos for an uncommonly dull fight. All this left gentlemanly, music-loving Ezzard Charles nonplused and a bit plaintive. Said he: "I don't know what I have to do to convince them I'm the champ. I guess I'm like Stephen Foster. He wrote a lotta good music and they didn't appreciate him until he was dead...