Word: knockouts
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...battered him until Uzcudun's face was raw meat. In the sixth round the referee stepped in. He waited for Uzcudun's seconds to wipe enough blood away for Uzcudun to see, then stepped out again. It went on for 15 rounds, the crowd howling for a knockout. But Carnera could neither knock his man down nor knock the stubborn, gold-toothed smile from his bloody face. By the end of the fight the early cheers for "Il Campionissimo" were nearly drowned by hoots, catcalls and loud cries of "Bravo Paulino" for the game loser...
...Buddy Baer, 245-lb. younger brother of Heavyweight Contender Max Baer: an amateur bout with 16-oz. gloves against one Chuck Stringari, of Detroit; by a knockout in the first round; in San Francisco...
...usual, the Hearst papers earned the Milk Fund's share by giving the fight an enthusiastic ballyhoo. Shrewdest prediction of the result was a drawing by Burris Jenkins Jr., which appeared in the Evening Journal the afternoon of the fight. It prophesied 1) the winner 2) the knockout 3) the punch that produced...
...standing again. Baer rushed at him, pounded his head with both hands. Schmeling, dazed and utterly beaten, turned his back and held onto the ropes. Baer stopped punching. Referee Donovan motioned to Schmeling's seconds, patted Baer's back, awarded him the fight on a technical knockout...
...championship of the world, which most people had forgotten that he did not already hold; in a bout against Bob Godwin of Daytona Beach, Fla., who was designated champion by the National Boxing Association last month after a tournament which Rosenbloom did not deign to enter; by a technical knockout in the fourth round; in Manhattan...