Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...billed as one of the big fights of the summer, but nobody was taken in. Heavyweight Challenger Freddie Beshore, less skillful than stubborn, was never a dashing performer. And pencil-mustached Ezzard Charles, though heavyweight champion of the world (National Boxing Association version, not good...
York or London), has neither heavy punch nor box-office drawing power. Last week, as they faced each other in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, the fans stayed away in droves; paid attendance (6,298) and receipts ($28,666) were the lowest ever for a heavyweight championship bout...
...children in the survey picked their heroes from history and letters. Washington and Lincoln led the list, followed by John Greenleaf Whittier, Clara Barton, Julius Caesar, Christopher Columbus. Few of them gave first place to living notables; even such national characters as Champion Skater John S. Johnson and Heavyweight James J. Corbett rated only a handful of votes...
Boxing fans remember Joe Louis as a relentless stalker with dynamite in his punch, who held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship for eleven years, defended it successfully 25 times. Two years ago, at 34, Joe made his final title defense against cautious Jersey Joe Walcott. He won by a knockout in eleven sluggish rounds while ringsiders shook their heads. Joe was slow and flabby; his bald spot was showing. Joe hung up his gloves...
...news brought a comment from another once-great Negro fighter, who had been out of the headlines for a long time. Said Harry Wills, now a Harlem landlord: "Louis is crazy." Harry Wills was thinking of past performances. Five former heavyweight champions* had tried comebacks. All had failed...