Word: lamotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...owners were not so happy about it all. The elated boxing promoters announced that the experiment would be repeated at next week's Jake LaMotta-Bob Murphy fight. The fight can be seen only in New York's Yankee Stadium or by paid admission, at the eight TV-equipped theaters...
Such teamwork pays big dividends. When Robinson won the middleweight title (160 Ibs.) from Jake LaMotta last February, the fight was a classic example of close teamwork, careful strategy and calculated risk. Against the "Bull of The Bronx," a stolid, crowding fighter with menacing strength and a stubborn pride in never having been knocked down, the Robinson strategy board settled on the dangerous game of the bull ring, with Robinson dancing out of the way of LaMotta's angry charges, prodding back to weaken his opponent...
...eleventh round, the strategy shifted. Robinson stood his ground, purposely absorbed the best punches a tiring LaMotta could throw. Satisfied that LaMotta was no longer dangerous, Robinson moved in for the kill. It never quite came off. In the 13th the referee stopped the fight with LaMotta beaten to a pulpy mass of bruised flesh, his championship lost by a technical knockout...
...news of the victory made Page One all over Europe. It was LaMotta who had won the middleweight title from France's Marcel Cerdan, four months before Cerdan died in a transatlantic airplane crash on his way back to the U.S. for a try at recovering his title. The victory made "Le Sucre Merveilleux" a European hero overnight. It also marked the distance the combination of Sugar Ray and Big George Gainford had come since the day an unknown 14-year-old dropped into Gainford's hole-in-the-wall Harlem gym, begging for a chance to fight...
Like Sugar Ray Robinson, Chicago's Johnny Bratton is fond of flashy clothes and cars, can handle a hot lick on the drums, and boxes with a fancy-Dan prance. When Sugar Ray graduated to the middleweight title by out-punching Jake LaMotta (TIME, Feb. 26), Bratton decided to apply for Sugar's vacant welterweight title. In Chicago's Stadium last week, 23-year-old Johnny put up a fight for it.* His opponent: New Jersey's Charley Fusari, 25, who has the distinction of once having stayed in the same ring with Sugar Ray Robinson...