Word: fullmer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play on the streets of Bingham and West Jordan. Last week's fight had hardly started before the broken-nosed, beetle-browed young brawler was sure he could win. After mixing it up in Madison Square Garden for six rounds with Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, Challenger Gene Fullmer, 25, walked back to his corner and said, "I can knock him out, Marv. Lemme open up and knock...
Clutch, Lean, Absorb. So Gene Fullmer folded his arms in front of him to ward off uppercuts, and waded in. Robby clutched, leaned and absorbed an awful banging around his ears and his midsection. Once or twice he shook loose and threw the swift combinations that had won him back his title for the third time after an unhappy retirement to nightclub hoofing. Fullmer blinked and kept coming...
...home-town crowd that had begun by rooting for Harlem's hero began to cheer the spectacle of a champ going down. "Hit him in his pink Cadillac," screamed a ringsider. Fullmer rained leather just about every place else. In the seventh he clubbed Robinson toward the canvas and then body-pushed him through the ropes. Sugar Ray was up at the count of six. For a brief flurry in the ninth, the champ looked like the destroyer of old. Still. Fullmer just kept coming...
...Apparently convinced that Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson really means to tangle with Utah's Gene Fullmer, International Boxing Club publicists set about proving that, come Jan. 2, paying customers will really see a fist fight. Fullmer's right cross, they announced after subjecting the punch to split-second electronic analysis, travels at 30.4 m.p.h., packs a 1,260-lb. wallop. Robinson's right loafs along at 15.2 m.p.h., but it lands with the weight of 1,500 lbs. Robinson, for one, was unimpressed by the revelation. "Don't care how fast it goes," said...
Middleweight Championship (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Sugar Ray Robinson v. Gene Fullmer from Madison Square Garden...