Word: ketchel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 600 fights the Boston Tar Baby hammered out his living with his fists. Stanley Ketchel, Harry Wills, Gunboat Smith-Sam held his own with them all. Even after an unlucky punch cost him the sight of one eye and cataracts dimmed the other, Sam fought on. In Mexico City, in 1923, he had to say to his seconds, "Just point me straight at him," before he could shuffle across the ring toward his opponent and lash out wildly to win the heavyweight championship of Mexico...