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...challenged his heavyweight title in the past ten years-and this might be his last appearance. Nobody knew or cared much about the man Big Joe was fighting. Even the champ, who is honest clear through, admitted that his foe-old Jersey Joe Walcott-was a second-rater...
...Where Is Your Respect?" The man who leveled this blast was no third-rater. Gregarious, greying Leslie Roberts, 51, a longtime newsman, was executive assistant to Canada's Minister of National Defense in the early years of the war, later a war correspondent. Currently, he free-lances for such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Collier's and Canada's top slick, Maclean's. On the side, he turns out a thrice-weekly column for the Montreal Herald...
...only two fights left in him, said Joe. He would defend his crown, for the 24th time, in September. Probable victim: second-rater Joe Baksi (see PRESS). Then, in another year, he would give someone else a final chance at him, and then retire-as undefeated champion, he hoped...
This week Middleweight Rocky Graziano-who outdraws any fighter but Joe Louis in Madison Square Garden-admitted that he had been offered $100.000 to throw a fight. The offer was made in Graziano's dressing room two weeks before his scheduled bout with second-rater Ruben ("Cowboy") Shank...
After all, Fritzie figured, he had only been knocked out twice in his life, once by one Milt Aron, another time, with considerable insistence, by a third-rater named Laddie Tonelli. ("They coulda counted a thousand over me in fractions ... I was a goner.") When he fought a "retirement" fight in Memphis last year, a local newsman wired Zivic's home-town Pittsburgh Press to see whether it wanted a story about it. The reply: "Don't bother ... we have plenty of old ones in stock...