Word: rematch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Sept 24--A Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio rematch in June probably will emerge from the smoke screen of conflicting reports following last night's bitter 15-round brawl at Yankee Stadium...
...middleweight championship from Sugar Ray Robinson last January, and every bit as clumsy as when he gave the title back to Robinson in May, Mormon Elder Gene Fullmer, 26, swarmed over Chico Vejar, 25, to win a ten-round decision and take a long step back toward a rematch with Sugar...
...coccygeal." Either both contestants were right or both were wrong. Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica admitted to an inconsistency in the quiz answers that they had approved for the show. Barry and Co-Producer Dan Enright put heads together, agreed that both contestants had missed, and called for a rematch-again at $3,500 a point-next week (Mon. 9 p.m. E.D.T.). Although Bloomgarden must relinquish claim on last week's pot, he gets a guarantee from the sponsor (Geritol) that even if he loses to Snodgrass, he can have the $52,500 he had already won. "Completely fair...
...Knocked almost out of the ring in the first round of his rematch with Mexico's Caspar Ortega, former Welterweight Champion Tony DeMarco came back to trade wallops for nine more rounds in one of the most furious fights in years. But DeMarco couldn't quite stop the long-armed Mexicali Indian, lost to him for the second time in a month on a split decision even closer than the first...
...Rematch. In Los Angeles, Harvey and Billie Cravaack got divorced, then got married again, later separated following a court session (Harvey claimed he awoke once to find Billie "scratching on my Adam's apple with an icepick," and Billie countered that Harvey had threatened to poison their swimming pool), finally were divorced a second time after Billie testified that Harvey had pulled her from the shower, "dragged me by the hair of my head through the house," tossed her outdoors nude, later pushed her from their car on a freeway...