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The fight, in effect, was for charity. Referee Jack Dempsey gave his services free. Film Comedians Bud Abbott & Lou Costello promoted it as a benefit in aid of the youth foundation established by Costello after his infant son died in 1943. Lightweight Champion Ike Williams, a cool, sharpshooting Negro from...
The surprising fact was that 25,932 people did pay to get in to watch the scramble for Joe Louis' abandoned heavyweight crown. They were sorry. For six rounds hardly a blow was struck-except a couple of low ones for which the referee cautioned Charles. In the seventh...
As the referee raised the new champion's glove, someone yelled, "Where's Joe?" They found Joe Louis, figurehead director of boxing for boxing's new monopoly, the International Boxing Club.* Joe climbed into the ring to hand La Motta a gold championship belt (with a diamond...
Most hard-boiled boxing fans thought I.B.C. deserved to lose a lot more than that for allowing the likes of La Motta to have a shot at the title. As recently as February, roundheeled Jake had been soundly thrashed in Montreal by a Frenchman named Laurent Dauthuille. A cloud of...
Turkish players entered the referee's dressing room. One made as if to shake the referee's hand, then socked him. Other Turks tried to beat up Italian players. Still mad, they wrecked their Athens hotel before leaving for Turkey, where the whole Turkish nation got into the...