Word: middleweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both wrestlers did not make the trip, Scanlon suffering from an injured knee and Rayner feeling the pains of an infected jaw. Due to the injuries. coach John Lee was forced to move three of his middleweight individuals up a weight class to fill...
...waiting for you." For all his precautions, Thorpe found the law waiting on more than one occasion. Once he escaped by hastily loading 25 geese onto an abandoned railway flatcar and pumping it down the tracks to safety. Other times he resorted to force, and as the middleweight boxing champion of Lincolnshire in his youth, he was a mean man to reckon with. Once when a warden caught him by surprise, Thorpe scored an easy K.O. with three straight lefts to the jaw−and landed in jail for three straight months for assault...
...discussion period following the match, referee Tom McNeeley showed the form which made him New England Middleweight Boxing Champion ten years ago. His powerful left managed to convince both Mongol Bepo and his villainous manager, Tony Angelo, of the correctness of his decision. The crowd approved...
Marcel Cerdan Jr. was no higher than a ring post when his father became the middleweight champion of the world. Marcel Sr. died shortly thereafter but for the son the legacy lives on: "It is my duty to try to succeed my father." He is certain of this, he says, for on the eve of a fight his father often visits him in his dreams, urging him on. "It is in the stars," says his manager, Philippe Filippi. "Old Marcel is up there watching me, and I know he's happy about what I am doing...
...memory of Marcel Cerdan Sr. is no less vivid to millions of Frenchmen. A veteran of the Free French navy, the handsome brawler fought his way out of Casablanca to become "l'Immortel." In September 1948, he knocked out Tony Zale in the twelfth round to win the middleweight title. He lost the crown to Jake LaMotta nine months later when he tore a left shoulder muscle in the first round, then gamely fought on virtually one-handed until he was unable to answer the bell for the tenth round. Scheduled for a rematch with LaMotta, the superstitious Cerdan...