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Gavilan set out to give a boxing lesson, stabbing sharp lefts, waltzing away, rushing in for a ferocious flurry of punches. He got his comeuppance in the second round. Instead of backing away in confusion, Basilio met the champion headon. He shook Gavilan with a right, landed a crushing left...
For the next six rounds, Basilio shot in punch after punch. Then the champion went to work at long distance, slicing Basilio with knifelike lefts, belting him under the heart with his famed bolo punch. From the tenth round on, Basilio's left eye was swollen shut; he fought...
Although there were nine other varsity crews in the championship race, the majority of the crowd of 18,000 which lined the banks of Lake Onondaga had eyes only for Navy and Washington. At the referee's shout of "Ready all . . . Row!", Navy spurted off at 40 strokes a...
In the 15th round, a ringside reporter for the New York Herald Tribune de voted himself to counting Bobo's punches: 117 in three minutes. Cut and bleeding, Paddy Young stayed gamely on his feet. But at the bell, Paddy raised Bobo's gloved hand in the air...
Poor old Jersey Joe ducked, clinched and backpedaled with all the grace he could muster, but it wasn't enough. With less than two and a half minutes gone in the first round, Marciano landed with a left and right to the jaw, and Jersey Joe bowled to the...