Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hagler lost his chance at the crown last year when he drew with Vito Antuofermo, whom Minter subsequently defeated twice--once by decision, once by an eighth-round knockout...
Antuofermo, however, picks Hagler to cop the title. Similarly, Crimson boxing editor Nevin Shalit chooses Hagler to win on a ninth-round knockout and dethrone the British champ...
Carter's quick knockout of his foe and Kennedy's retributive triumph came on the convention's first two days. By winning 24 primaries to Kennedy's ten, Carter had sent 1,982 delegates to New York, 316 more than required for the nomination. Not only were they unlikely to defect, but they would have been prohibited from doing so if the convention adopted a rule, proposed by the party's National Committee in 1978, requiring all delegates to cast their first roll call votes for the candidate to whom they had been committed. If he was to keep...
...brutal battle, head-to-head, toe-to-toe, a real slugfest, waiting for the knockout punch...
...first won the heavyweight title in 1964 on a seventh-round knockout of Sonny Liston. Stripped of the crown in 1967 after he refused to serve in the military, he regained it in his eight-round knockout of George Foreman in the Kinshasa, Zaire, "Rumble in the Jungle" of 1974. After losing to Leon Spinks in 1978, Ali regained the title for an unprecendented third time when he defeated Spinks later that year...