Word: motta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very perfection long kept him from popularity. Not until he was close to the end of his career did he fire the imagination of the fans, who always like a slugger better than a boxing perfectionist. Beaten once on points by Jake La-Motta (in the second of their six matches), Robinson lost his second bout and his middleweight championship to Britain's Randy Turpin in 1951. Some 60,000 turned up at the Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth...
...average Phonevision picture was seen by 25% of the potential audience. Variations ranged from a top of 60% to a low of 8% one evening when the "free" TV competition was the Robinson-La Motta fight. Most popular film of the experimental series: Bing Crosby's 1947 comedy, Welcome Stranger. Least popular: a 1947 comedy, Undercover Maisie...
...title by scoring a technical knockout over Jake La Motta in the 13th round of their scheduled 15 rounder in Chicago last night. Robinson vacates the Welterweight title by winning the Middleweight championship...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS Radio & TV). Jake La Motta v. Sugar Ray Robinson, for the middleweight championship...
With less than half a minute of the fight remaining, the battered, bleeding La Motta suddenly saw an opening, fired his first good salvo of the evening. A right hook caught Dauthuille flush on the jaw, gave ringside cameramen one of the finest knockout pictures of the season (see cut). Jake's sudden come-alive finish left some sportwriters unimpressed ("manufactured melodrama," one called it), but it saved Jake's title by the barest of margins: the fight had only 13 seconds to go when Dauthuille was counted...