Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 14 years of marriage to onetime Heavyweight Puncher Lou Nova, his wife decided she wanted a divorce. Among the reasons: his habit of putting his bare feet on the dining room table next to his mother-in-law's lemon meringue...
...first bout with Argentina's Cesar Brion last November, former Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis squeaked by with a close decision. Last week, in San Francisco, aging (37) Joe Louis looked a little more like the old Brown Bomber. His left jab cut rugged Cesar Brion's face to ribbons, twice had him on the verge of a knockout before Louis won a unanimous decision at the final bell...
Tony Trabert (rhymes with Say, Bert) has an even temperament, the physique of a light heavyweight (6 ft., 175 Ibs.), the cat-quick footwork of a basketball player (which he is), and an ambition to become the world's best player. Trabert owes much of his fine game, and his determination to make it the finest, to his friend and doubles partner Bill Talbert, a New Yorker who hails from Cincinnati himself. Says Trabert: "He's like a brother . . . My tour of Europe with Bill in 1950 did much to raise my game. I learned so much that...
...game, Jersey Joe has had a lot of tough breaks. In all, Joe tried four times against Joe Louis and Ezzard Charles. Last week in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field before the largest fight crowd (28,-272) of the year, Jersey Joe got his last chance at the world heavyweight title...
...carrier, who spent a bitter year and a half on home relief and who lost 15 of his 64 listed fights because "hunger was my house guest," went home to Camden, N.J. to his wife and six children, the oldest man in history to win the World Heavyweight Championship...