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...first round. Challenger Ezzard Charles jolted the heavyweight champion with a right uppercut. Rocky Marciano lowered his head, and an irritated scowl flickered across his splayed features. Then, unperturbed, Rocky plodded back into the fight. He had taken the challenger's best punch; Charles was already a beaten boxer...
...five more rounds, Charles covered up while Marciano plodded forward with the clumsy, rugged power of a reformed streetfighter. In the sixth, Charles battled back briefly, bloodied Marciano's broad nose. In the eighth, he opened a small cut over the champion's left eye. Then he made his mistake. Stepping away from a clumsy left hook, he dropped his own protecting left hand. Rocky crossed with a roundhouse right to the jaw. Limp and empty-eyed, Charles sagged to the canvas. He was up at the count of four. Rocky was all over him, pumping those stubby...
Championship Boxing (Wed. 10.30 p.m., CBS). Rocky Marciano v. Ezzard Charles, for the heavyweight title...
Match's elaborate picture coverage includes everything from picture articles on the Ezzard Charles-Rocky Marciano fight and Cinemactress Dawn Addams to French colonial troubles in Tunisia. Says Publisher Prouvost curtly: "We put out magazines for the average Frenchman...
Next day Champion Moore made a modest suggestion: he thought he had earned a crack at Rocky Marciano and a heavyweight purse. In the back room of boxing, the smart-money boys disagreed. Archie, they argued, like most stylists, was too clean and clever a fighter to make for drama and draw a big gate. But he could hit the road again and take on Joey Maxim, another old friend-in Omaha...