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But as reporters delved into the matter, it became embarrassingly plain that boxing had lost nothing of the sort. "Promising" George Flores, in 16 months of professional fighting, had lost seven of 20 bouts, four of them by knockouts, horizontal or technical. Twice in the month before the fatal match...
¶ Former Middleweight Champion "Rocky" Graziano, after a second-round knockout of Chuck Hunter, in a fight that looked so phony to the referee that Hunter's purse was impounded; in Boston.
In Round Seven, with both fighters sparring cautiously in mid-ring, Walcott suddenly shot his left hook again. Neither Charles, nor 25 million televiewers, saw the blow coming. The punch caught the champion flush on the jaw, felled him like a poled ox. As the referee tolled "seven," Charles tried...
In Rounds Nine and Eleven he banged Turpin around, but there was no stopping power in the punches. Muttered a British sportwriter: "I still haven't seen any of that dynamite I've been writing about." By Round Twelve, it was obvious that only a lucky knockout punch...
Arriving in Berlin on his triumphal tour of Europe, Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson (TIME, June 25) ran into some peculiar local customs. In the first round of an exhibition match, he floored Germany's Gerhard Hecht, who promptly claimed that he had been fouled. When Robinson protested...