Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iron Man (Universal-International) seems bent on proving that if a man has a bad enough temper, he can become heavyweight champion of the world. Jeff Chandler, a coal miner whose only real ambitions are to marry Evelyn Keyes and own a radio store, has a nasty habit of going efficiently berserk when anyone mocks him. Egged on by his sweetheart and ne'er-do-well brother (Stephen McNally), Chandler soon bowls over all the local heavyweights and moves on to the big city. Booed by the fans as a dirty fighter and damned by the newspapers...
...boys along Jacob's Beach had never thought much of Joey Maxim as a light heavyweight champion. For 19 months he had refused to risk his title, though he had ventured once into the heavyweight class and taken a tremendous 15-round belting from then-Champion Ezzard Charles. He might be able to box, but he was never a puncher. The boys thought a lot more of Irish Bob Murphy, a redheaded, left-handed brawler who had scored eight knockouts in ten bouts this year. As a 5-to-12 fight-time favorite, Murphy would undoubtedly cut the hapless...
...leading contenders for a crack at Light Heavyweight Champion Maxim is Seattle Boxer Harry ("Kid") Matthews, who has squabbled for months with New York's International Boxing Club (TIME, July 9). Last week the deadlock was finally broken when the I.B.C. offered him a larger cut of the television percentages. I.B.C. Boss Jim Norris offered Matthews a bout in Chicago (an I.B.C. city) on Oct. 3, which had to be turned down because of Matthews' previous commitments. But it looked as though Matthews (who gave Irish Bob Murphy a resounding beating last March) would finally get his chance...
...Imperium (Ezio Pinza & Fran Warren; Victor, 2 sides LP). Miss Warren and songs (some of them pretty featherweight) are badly outclassed by Operatic Heavyweight Pinza...
...Light Heavyweight Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio and TV). Joe Maxim v. Bob Murphy...