Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years, while he took his lumps in tank towns and second-rate cities, Archie Moore earned little besides a reputation. He got to be one of the best boxers in the country, but he usually did his fighting for small change. Two years ago, when he won the light-heavyweight championship in St. Louis, Moore's share of the purse came to a reported $1,492. Even then, the owl-eyed operators who make matches in the smoky back rooms refused to give him a break. Archie had to defend his title in Ogden. Utah, later in Miami...
Next day Champion Moore made a modest suggestion: he thought he had earned a crack at Rocky Marciano and a heavyweight purse. In the back room of boxing, the smart-money boys disagreed. Archie, they argued, like most stylists, was too clean and clever a fighter to make for drama and draw a big gate. But he could hit the road again and take on Joey Maxim, another old friend-in Omaha...
...most TV sets could have been turned off last week with little loss. Dragnet, Mr. Peepers, Groucho Marx and a dozen other shows were still show ing repeat films to whoever happened to have missed them in the winter months. Sir Thomas Beecham would have been happy watching Light Heavyweight Archie Moore club Harold Johnson into submission (see SPORT), or seeing the professional Detroit Lions give the College All-Stars a painful football lesson, 31-6, on one of the largest radio (670 stations) and TV (160 stations) networks ever put together...
...29th Division boxing team, he caught the eye of General John J. Pershing. At war's end he trained the A.E.F. boxing team for the Inter-Allied Army games in Paris. Spike has no trouble recalling the most stylish fighter on his squad: a young marine light heavyweight named Gene Tunney...
...Manhattan, Heavyweight Contender Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson swirled into the center of the ring and ran head on into a squall of right hooks thrown by Cuban Heavyweight Champion Nino Valdes. Knocked down twice in the second round and floored a third time by some catch-as-catch-can wrestling, Hurricane lost...