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...risky enterprise, flawed by changes in boxing rules, training methods, improved diet and medical care. Then there are those shifting subjectives: the accuracy of recollection and loyalty to generations. One expert favors Joe Louis, another Jack Dempsey, voting for the knockout punch that Ali admittedly never had. Rocky Marciano was inelegant, but he could hit and he never lost a fight...
...heavyweight champions have known some of the glory that Ali did-and for the rest of their lives they can take solace from the fact that they once held the most coveted title in boxing. Three of the ex-champs since Joe Louis are dead: Rocky Marciano was killed in a plane crash in 1969, Sonny Liston died of an overdose of drugs in 1970, and in 1975 Ezzard Charles succumbed to the lingering muscular disease that killed baseball's Lou Gehrig. Louis and the other five surviving champions have coped with life without the title in a variety...
Jersey Joe Walcott, 64, won the title from Charles in 1951, then retired 14 months later after being K.O.'d by Marciano. Walcott is now thriving in his native New Jersey as an organizer of community programs for handicapped and retarded children. He also served for three years as sheriff of Camden County, and is currently the state's acting athletic commissioner. Walcott, who claims he never earned a purse larger than $300 during his first 15 years of boxing, concedes that some of his later winnings "could have been better invested." But he adds proudly...
Floyd Patterson, 43, gained the championship by winning a tournament after Marciano retired in 1956. Patterson lost the title to Ingemar Johansson in 1959 and then won it back in 1960, making him the first man ever to regain the championship. After two first-round knockouts by Sonny Liston, he retired in 1972. Patterson now operates an amateur boxing club and is New York's acting athletic commissioner. After he lost his title, Patterson was so humiliated that he sometimes wore disguises. Now he says: "What I've been looking for throughout my whole life I have found...
...officials have photographed the painted design on the ceiling and will duplicate it after re-plastering, Marciano said...