Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring canvas was red with Battalino's blood from nose, lips, eyes, scalp. Again Battalino kept wading forward, always forward, to the end. Again it was Petrolle's hand which the referee held up, though this time on a close decision and not for a technical knockout of the grim, game, gory Battalino...
...ring as lightly as though his 215-lb. body were inflated with air. Feary and Kilcullen fought each other in the third round of the tournament. In the second round Kilcullen knocked Feary down once and Feary knocked Kilcullen down twice. In the third round, Feary scored his 33rd knockout in 38 recorded fights. In the semifinal, he scored the 34th when the handler of his opponent. Jack Holland of New Orleans, took off his shirt and threw it into the ring. His opponent in the final, George Schultz of Cleveland, stayed on his feet till the third round when...
...said. 'Yeh-yeh,' he muttered as he went to his corner." After dodging and feinting to make Dempsey think he was afraid, Tunney finally found his opening and "with everything I had in my right hand hit Jack on the cheekbone. Shucks, too high for a knockout." In the sixth round Dempsey landed his hardest blow, a left hook to Tunney's Adam's apple. "The cartilage was pushed into my throat and lacerated the mucous membrane on the side. I coughed blood and was hoarse for several days." Tunney won the decision and "after...
...Yale meet Hines and Adlis were the only Harvard boxers to win their matches, and both stand a good chance to go far in the Intercollegiates. In the meet with Yale Hines scored the only technical knockout, winning over Donald in the third round...
...avoid it and Schaaf pounded Stribling in the body till the fourth round. Then, when Stribling tried to hold him with one of his peculiarly tenacious clinches, Schaaf cracked him on the jaw with four right uppercuts, dropped him with a left hook. Saved from a knockout by the bell, Stribling fought six more losing rounds, with exactly that kind of exciting, reckless courage which critics have accused him of lacking after fights which he has won. At the finish, with both eyes almost closed by bruises, Stribling saw Schaaf get a unanimous decision. Experts, picking Schaaf as the best...