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¶ Sugar Ray Robinson, 37, four-time middleweight champion of the world, earned close to $500,000 for 15 rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in...
The controversy arose as one referee whistled for the penalty shot just as the pistol sounded to end the second overtime. Tufts' official time keeper asserted, "I shot the gun and you blew the whistle." Two minutes later, he became unsure of the precise sequence of events and the game...
In the second round the balding apple-knocker from the Yakima Valley let loose a looping right, and it caught the champion, high on the cheek. For four satisfying seconds, the thin crowd in Seattle's Sick's Stadium sensed that it might be getting its money'...
Patterson found his feet before Referee Tommy found his tongue. The 22-year-old pro (6 ft., 187 Ibs.) spent the next four rounds bouncing the big (6 ft. 1¼ in., 202 lbs.) Olympic champion (28) off the canvas. In the intervals when Rademacher was upright, Floyd showed signs...
¶ It took Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson less than three minutes to convince every fight fan in the Polo Grounds that his match with Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson was a wretched mismatch. A pathetic primitive with an awesome capacity for absorbing punishment, Hurricane started leaking blood in the first round and...