Word: giardello
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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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...