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Middlewight (160 Ibs.) Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest fighter, pound for pound, of his lackluster day, set his sights high. In challenging Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim, one-time Welterweight (147 Ibs.) Champion Robinson was aiming to become the third man in ring history ever to hold three titles.*For ten rounds, sweltering under the ring lights at Yankee Stadium one night last week, Robinson was right on target, bombing bumbling Maxim with a brilliant series of rights & lefts, throwing his punches in bunches and dancing skillfully out of harm...
...ropes, unable to move. The bell rang for the 14th round, but he could not answer it. As Sugar Ray drooped in his corner, the ring announcer held high the hand of his thoroughly outpointed opponent and proclaimed "the winner by a technical knockout, and still light-heavyweight champion: Joey Maxim...
...Joey. Revival of a topnotch Rodgers & Hart musical with a brilliantly tough John O'Hara book about a sexy rich lady who turns on her heel (TIME...
Middleweight champ Sugar Ray Robinson and Light Heavyweight champion Joey Maxim were finally matched in a 15-round fight for Maxim's title, June 23, at Yankee Stadium...
Musicland, U.S.A. (Fri. 8 p.m., CBS). Excerpts from Pal Joey, Guys & Dolls, Three Wishes for Jamie...