Word: heeney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madison Square Garden, which lost $20,000, last week's was by no means the most costly heavyweight championship fight on record. That distinction still belongs to the Tunney v. Heeney bout of 1928 on which $200,000 was dropped. Camera's failure to knock out an opponent who has only been knocked out twice in 148 fights caused most sportswriters to deride him for his victory last week. Nothing he has done since he landed in the U. S. in 1929-, an illiterate monster with a French manager, has won him any praise or popularity. After last...
...Heeney bout...
Carnera fought in Detroit last week, where he has not been suspended. Opponent was K. O. Christner, tough Akron rubber maker, who fought well against Jack Sharkey and Tom Heeney. Carnera knocked Christner out in the fourth round. On June 23 in Philadelphia Carnera meets George Godfrey, 222-lb. Negro, whom white heavyweight challengers have consistently avoided...