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...Savold; in Philadelphia. Marciano, a leading contender for the world title, was so inept-once, missing with a wild right, he threw himself flat on his face-that Champion Joe Walcott, who had been dickering with Marciano, promptly agreed to a return fight in June with ex-Champion Ezzard Charles...
...almost asleep when he heard a loud voice outside. MaCoy walked over to the window. In the square he saw "a man reading aloud the last issue of TIME. He was sitting there with about 25 people around him, reading about Joe Louis' attempted comeback against Ezzard Charles...
...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...