Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Jack Dempsey, onetime world's heavyweight champion, announced the big news, photographers in Santa Monica, Calif, snapped his 19-year-old daughter Joan (by his third marriage to ex-Show Girl Hannah Williams), with her fiance, Dennis O'Flaherty, 21, a Loyola University student. They will be married this week, said Dempsey, in a ceremony (just "a few friends") in Los Angeles...
Charged in his wife's divorce suit with gross neglect, extreme cruelty and beating her "black and blue," former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim protested that it wasn't that way at all. "Sure, we had some fights, but I always came out worse than she did. I take more than I dish...
...Grossinger's also shelters sportsmen: Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano is training there now for his September fight with Roland La Starza. Channel Swimmer Florence Chadwick was a Grossinger pro, as was Golfer Babe Didrickson Zaharias...
...Ogden, Utah, aging (36) Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore outpointed Joey Maxim, 31, from whom he took the title last December, to win a 15-round decision...
...America's greatest champions died-an almost legendary all-around athlete, and a heavyweight boxer...