Word: ketchel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bells & Boos. One mighty haymaker was the making of Rocky. He pulled it out of center field last March, knocked his opponent groggy. The confidence gained from that wallop gave him the same killer instinct that made Stanley Ketchel famous. He promptly made bells ring in the noggins of the late Bummy Davis, fading Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane, drew $100,000 gates...
...sets of red-and-blue silk underwear, a top hat, frock coat, and a rococo vocabulary. He won the light-heavyweight championship from Bob Fitzsimmons, who was 44 at the time, and hit him only once in 13 rounds. O'Brien batted 21-year-old Middleweight Stanley Ketchel around for eight rounds in 1909, when O'Brien was 31, and was then knocked cold. "I had heard," he reminisced later, "that Ketchel's dynamic onslaught was such it could not readily be withstood, but I conjectured I could jab his puss...