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...week tap-tapping across a nightclub stage were rubbery now, and the speed was gone from the fists that won 153 fights and six world championships. In Philadelphia's Convention Hall last week, Sugar Ray Robinson, 43, meekly absorbed the taunts of beetle-browed Middleweight Joey Giardello, 32. "Boy, are you getting old," gibed Giardello. "Hah!" he laughed, when Robinson threw a pawing punch. "I was waitin' for that...
...seven rounds, Giardello pecked at the face that Robinson once promised "ain't nobody gonna muss this up." Robinson covered up and clinched. A left hook bounced Ray to the canvas for a six-count in the fourth. The referee graciously called it a slip. With three rounds to go, Sugar Ray desperately attacked, but his punches had no sting and the officials' cards were unanimous: 49.43, 48-45, 47-43-all for Giardello. In his dressing room, while flunkies fanned his flab, Ray Robinson grimaced sadly: his $14,500 purse had been attached by federal taxmen...
Boxer Langlois, who was a substitute for Joey Giardello (who had a knee injury), was game but overmatched. In the sixth round, Olson opened a cut over Langlois' left eye. In the eleventh, another Olson punch knocked the dressing off and left the cut looking like a blackish mussel shell, gaping in the middle. After a conference with the ring doctor, the referee awarded the fight to Olson on a technical knockout. Television viewers, who could not plainly see the cut or the blood and wondered why the bout was halted in the middle of a round, felt cheated...
...York, Philadelphia's Joey Giardello, top-ranked middleweight taking dead aim on Champion Bobo Olson's title, misfired and lost a unanimous ten-round decision to France's Pierre Langlois, a 4-1 underdog...
...close but clear-cut: Olson. That was enough, since the remaining judge carded it a draw. After the fight, Family Man (four children) Olson hopped a plane for San Francisco and home. Before he left, Bobo announced his plans for the future: "A big outdoor fight with Joe Giardello in New York this summer.-A real big-money fight...