Word: fullmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When he was not stopping punches with his face, former Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer was forced to use every weapon he had as he tried to fight his way past Las Vegas' Neal Rivers for another crack at the title. For ten rounds he threw fists, forehead and shoulders with fierce abandon, and for ten rounds he caught as much as he threw. The verdict: a split decision for Fullmer. The surgical count: 16 stitches for Fullmer, only six for Rivers...
...Every bit as wild and woolly as when he won the middleweight championship from Sugar Ray Robinson last January, and every bit as clumsy as when he gave the title back to Robinson in May, Mormon Elder Gene Fullmer, 26, swarmed over Chico Vejar, 25, to win a ten-round decision and take a long step back toward a rematch with Sugar...
...sport-page banner line in the New York World-Telegram and Sun. And indeed, in the first three rounds the outcome seemed certain. The old man had nothing left. Sugar Ray Robinson was a cautious shuffler just two days shy of 37, and he two-stepped away from Gene Fullmer, the brawling, 25-year-old Mormon elder who had taken away his middleweight championship four months ago. At ringside in Chicago, the experts exchanged knowing nods: age had soured Sugar...
With cocky confidence, Fullmer chose again the same tactics that won him the title. Bulling in from outside, he lunged for Robinson's lean, graceful body, whistling home numbing roundhouse rights and ripping uppercuts. Robinson planted his feet and mostly waited; when he did fight back he was as right-hand crazy as a preliminary boy. Held high, Sugar's left was only an ineffective shield. Piling up points, Fullmer showed his contempt for the fading skill of Robinson, once the greatest craftsman of his generation, by landing with awkward, sprawling right-hand leads. Robinson backed...
...third round, as he anxiously watched his fighter, Robinson's manager, George ("The Emperor") Gainford, noticed a Fullmer weakness: the champion was dropping his hands after taking a body blow. Before the fourth, Gainford advised Robinson to throw a right to the heart, and then follow with a left hook to the chin. Robinson nodded. He saw no chance in the next round, but midway through the fifth, Robinson drove a right into Fullmer's body. In Pavlovian style, the champion lowered his hands, and for a split second uncovered his chin. It hung there, as naked...