Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archibald Lee Moore, light-heavyweight champion of the world, kept the transcontinental call properly terse. "You wanna fight Willi Besmanoff in Louisville the night before the Derby?" asked Archie's manager in New York. "How much?" asked Archie in San Diego. "Ten thousand." Said Archie: "I'll be there...
...fans were satisfied, Archie was disappointed. A knockout would have given the old battler a lifetime total of 127 K.O.s, would have made him boxing's undisputed K.O. champ. It is a title he deserves. Young Stribling, a heavyweight who also claimed 126 knockouts, swelled his total by touring tank towns in the '20a and flattening the local champions. Archie has taken on all comers at all weights, from Europe to Australia...
Archie cannot even think of the names of all the men he still has plans to fight. "I got to leave for Vancouver in the morning to get ready for whatsisname-that German," he announced. "I'm taking off weight so I can fight either Patterson for the heavyweight championship or Ray Robinson for my title. I'll get that knockout record soon. And I'm going to run it up so high that no one will ever beat...
...Crimson heavyweight varsity added a strong Pennsylvania crew and an outclassed Navy squad to the list of its victims on Saturday. Establishing itself firmly as the second ranking crew in the country, the varsity survived its toughest challenge of the season to win the Adams Cup for the third straight year...
...undefeated Crimson heavyweight crew goes after its third successive Adams Cup victory tomorrow afternoon against the toughest competition of the last two years...