Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian amateurs. Cabled Il Duce: "Be tenacious, sporty and sprightly. . . ." In flocked some 55,000 fight fans, an estimated 70% of them Italian, began booing when Gavino Matta, Italy's flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight, who floored courageous Federico Cortonesi three times before the referee intervened in the second round. Otherwise Italian honor was dutifully upheld as Italy won six bouts to the U. S. five...
...Pugilist Schmeling announced that he would live up to his end of his bargain. Backed by Madison Square Garden Corp., which publicized the fight, and printed tickets for it, he went into training for a month at Speculator, N. Y., announced that he was confident of winning by a knockout. Only detail in all this preparation that admitted that neither Schmeling nor the Garden actually expected the fight to take place was that on the tickets, of which 43 were sold as curios, Schmeling's name was misspelled with...
...Negro Boxer John Henry Lewis: a technical knockout over Bob Olin, after flooring him for a count of seven in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout, in St. Louis; thus retaining the world's light-heavyweight title he won from Olin...
...feuds and undercover romance. Grooming Ward for the championship is for Nick subsidiary to his main purpose of revenging himself on the champion's manager, a gunman named Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). The likelihood that Ward will enable him to accomplish this by repeating his hotel-room knockout is endangered when Nick suspects his protege of an intrigue with Fluff. Now intent on revenging himself on his own fighter, Nick sends Ward into the ring with instructions calculated to allow the champion, whose manager has been informed of the plan, to win. Halfway through the fight, Fluff and Nick...
...month before shooting started. In the picture, his fight for the heavyweight championship was far more strenuous than most real heavyweight contests. It lasted a week. When it ended his opponent (William Haade, a onetime steelworker) was hospitalized for a fortnight with an ankle sprained by falling at the knockout. In the picture, Kid Galahad's most spectacular victory before he wins the title is against a heavyweight named "O'Brien." O'Brien is really Bob Westell, leading California heavyweight, who this week fights Bob Pastor at Los Angeles in the first major heavyweight Dout...