Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rocky has won 37 of his 42 professional fights by knockouts, and has grossed upwards of $150,000 with his fists. Now the ultimate glory and a succession of far greater purses are within his grasp; next week he will fight aging (officially 38) Jersey Joe Walcott for the heavyweight championship of the world...
...Heavyweight Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Archie Moore v. Clarence Henry from Detroit...
...Chicago, where he started his professional climb to boxing fame 18 years ago, Old Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis announced that he had signed a contract to play the fight scenes himself in a biographical movie which will star a professional actor not yet selected...
...Heavyweight Rex Layne, a ten-round decision over former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles, by a much-disputed verdict of Referee & Sole Judge Jack Dempsey; in Ogden, Utah...
...applied the advice. Matthews went down on to the seat of his boxing trunks as if his ring record (unbeaten since 1943) had been pulled out from under him, took a count of 10. Mauler Marciano (42 victories, 37 knockouts) had won himself a crack, next September, at the heavyweight crown of elderly (38) but shifty Jersey Joe Walcott, who may get the same kind of rough treatment-if Rocky can catch...