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Cassius' biggest pain was in his pocketbook. His share of the purse was only $100,000-the smallest payoff to a defending champion since 1952, when Jersey Joe Walcott got $92,000 for fighting Ezzard Charles for the fourth time...
...night last week, Ernie climbed into the ring at the Baltimore Coliseum to fight New York's Wayne Bethea, 31. A hulking 205-pounder, Bethea had fought Sonny Liston and Ezzard Charles, had a record of 32-19-3. Ernie weighed 184 Ibs. on the boxing commission's scales, and he had not fought in nearly a year. "You have to prove yourself," shrugged his manager. "You have to be ready to take a chance...
CINCINNATI, Oct. 31--Ezzard Charles, former heavyweight boxing champion, said today he regrets being suspended from fighting in Texas, but plans to continue fighting. He said he will ask that the suspension be lifted...
...Bother. There was no one around to bother the new champ. Roland La Starza, Ezzard Charles and Don Cockell, challengers of minor talents, tried, and they all came to pieces under Rocky's ham-handed macing. Last year Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore managed to put Rocky on the canvas for the second time in his pro career, but the champ righted himself as solidly as a hogshead of ale, and in the ninth round knocked Moore out. He was 31, and he still couldn't box, but there was still no one around to bother...
...show brings sports paintings up to date with Fletcher Martin's picture of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano bloody-nosed after the second Ezzard Charles fight. And with Elaine de Koonings' wild scramble titled Basketball Players, the show makes another surprising point: even some of the abstract expressionists are sport fans...