Word: knockouter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Georges Carpentier, 81, light-heavyweight boxing champion from 1920 to 1922, who lost on a fourth-round knockout to Heavyweight Jack Dempsey in 1921 's "Battle of the Century" in Jersey City, boxing's first million-dollar gate; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...Thrilla in Manila more than made up for the routine prefight publicity. As expected, Blowhard Ali filled the tropical city with enough hot air to start a new front moving across Asia. He dubbed his opponent a punching bag and hinted at an early knockout. The act got out of control only when Wife Belinda flew into Manila and flew out less than twelve hours later, distressed by the publicity given Ali's companion, Model Veronica Porche. For his part, Joe Frazier had stayed in character, speaking briefly and bluntly. "Ali can't touch me," he said...
...were fought. The first three rounds belonged to Ali. He landed clean, quick, stinging shots that made Frazier sag, and he blunted Frazier's headlong attack by blocking punches as he backed against the ropes. When Ali went hunting, it was on flat feet, in search of the knockout punch. But he never found it. In Round 4, the second battle began. Frazier, having weathered his customary slow start, set to work, pounding lefts to the chin through Ali's gloves. He bothered Ali on the ropes with more uppercuts, body punches and fast, punishing combinations. No matter...
...what round the Sox will deliver the knockout blow was not generally agreed upon. Barry, who runs the Kwik Shak at the Park Street subway stop, calls the Sox in five...
Muhammed Ali retained his World's Heavywight Boxing Championship by scoring a technical knockout over Joe Frazier in the fourteenth round of their scheduled fifteen-round grudge match in Manila, the Phillipines...