Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promoters, rarely worry about libel suits. Last week this free-swinging confidence was rabbit-punched in a libel suit against the Hearst Publishing Co. and its Los Angeles Examiner sports columnist, Vincent X. Flaherty. Two years ago Flaherty fell to reminiscing, in print, about the fight in 1941 when Heavyweight Lou ("Cosmic Punch") Nova lost by a six-round technical knockout to Champion Joe Louis. Wrote Flaherty: "The cowardly [appearance of] Nova was like a frightened, screaming child at vaccination time . . . They lugged his carcass and towed it in abject disgrace toward his corner. He smiled bravely in the safety...
...right mind really thought that Don Cockell, chubby heavyweight champion of the British Empire, belonged in the same ring with Rocky Marciano. Day after day, before the two fighters tangled for the world championship in San Francisco last week, dutiful British sportswriters beat the drums for the Battersea Butterball. But most of the time it was easier to explain why Don might lose. For one thing, the 16½ft. square ring was too small. For another, the Britons reminded their readers, U.S. boxing is rotten with rackets. In Philadelphia, a light heavyweight named Harold Johnson claimed to have been...
...Killer Marciano was crowding in now, head down like a gorilla, except that a gorilla does not eat meat, and Marciano is the most carnivorous fighter I have ever seen. Truly I do not exaggerate . . . The sun had set on the arena, but it had never set on the heavyweight champion of the Empire...
...same smooth-stroking University of Pennsylvania crew that put an end to Navy's three-year winning streak (TIME, May 16) proved that its Adams Cup victory was no fluke. On the sluggish tidewater of the Potomac, at Washington, the Quakers took the Eastern heavyweight sprint championship by finishing the 2,000-meter race i^ lengths ahead of Cornell. In last place, behind Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Yale and Princeton...
Noah Brusso), 73, onetime (1906-08) heavyweight boxing champion of the world; of a heart attack; in Vancouver, B.C. The only Canadian and the shortest boxer (5 ft. 7 in., 179 Ibs.) ever to wear the heavyweight crown, Ontario-born Tommy was soundly beaten by Jack Johnson, fought only sporadically thereafter, became an ordained minister, once advised newlyweds: "The first few rounds are easy in prize fighting and in matrimony. It's staying power that counts...