Word: knockouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Official time for the knockout was given as one minute flat, but several announcers who had checked the time was closer to 1 minute 40 seconds. One of them declared on the air that the timekeeper needed a new watch...
...recapturing Goldie: someone urged that he be brought to earth with a tranquilizing dart; another thought up an elaborate scheme to float a balloon filled with anesthetic gas and baited with thin pieces of meat so that the eagle's talons would prick the bubble, causing a knockout drop. Still others saw a profit in Goldie's exploits. Britain's wideawake malted-milk firm rushed out advertisements urging "Give Goldie Horlick's!" One of its biggest oil companies took a half-page ad to declare...
...tickets. Closed-circuit TV carried the fight to 51 cities across the U.S. and Canada-with Clay doing the between-rounds commentary (at a fee of $10,000). Odds makers favored Patterson at 7 to 5, but Cassius left no doubt where his money was riding: "Chuvalo by a knockout in five," he predicted...
...Joey Giardello: a unanimous 15-round decision over Rubin ("Hurricane") Carter, 27, in a middleweight championship fight at Philadelphia's Convention Hall. Carter's looks (shaved head, drooping Fu Manchu moustache) and ring credentials (a one-round knockout of Welterweight King Emile Griffith) were impressive enough to make him the betting favorite at 11-10. But they hardly awed Champion Giardello, 34, who was fighting his 127th professional bout. Counterpunching craftily, scoring heavily with short, chopping hooks, Giardello won a lopsided victory, to the delight of 6,000 home-town fans...
...title. "All I want is justice," he said. "I'll have 15 people flown in from the U.N. to observe the fight." He promised to wear his championship belt into the ring, "and if I lose, I'll give it to him right there." He guaranteed a knockout, briefly reverted to verse to name the round: Nine will be fine If he makes me sore, I'll cut it to four...