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...Aging (34) onetime Heavyweight Boxing Champ Ezzard Charles suffered the final indignity of losing a ten-round fight to dancing Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson, who shuffled, jumped and jabbed his way to a unanimous decision. Explained Loser Charles: "I loafed." ¶ As the Davis Cup challenge round drew near (Aug. 26-28), the U.S. tennis team suffered what might be a crippling blow: 24-year-old Tony Trabert, French and Wimbledon champion, was out of action with a pulled shoulder muscle. Unless he recovers, his two erratic teammates, Vic Seixas and Hamilton Richardson, will have difficulty hanging on to the hard...
...Slow and clumsy, and just about the only man in the house who did not know he was through as a fighter, former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles stumbled around the ring in Miami for nine rounds before he finally dropped under the awkward flailing of a third-rate pug named John Holman...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC radio & TV). Ezzard Charles v. Charlie Norkus...
...first round. Challenger Ezzard Charles jolted the heavyweight champion with a right uppercut. Rocky Marciano lowered his head, and an irritated scowl flickered across his splayed features. Then, unperturbed, Rocky plodded back into the fight. He had taken the challenger's best punch; Charles was already a beaten boxer...
Championship Boxing (Wed. 10.30 p.m., CBS). Rocky Marciano v. Ezzard Charles, for the heavyweight title...