Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pugilist Breitenstraeter, heavyweight champion of Germany, entered the ring in Berlin for a 20-round bout. His opponent was Paul Sampson, né (in Germany) Samson Koerner. Koerner was once a stoker on an American ship. In 1920, in this country, boxing under the name of Sampson, he gave Gene Tunney, American light heavyweight champion, a terrific bout. The next year Tom Gibbons knocked him out in two rounds. Farmer Lodge (TIME, Mar. 3) did the same...
...Hans Breitenstraeter and Sampson entered the ring together. Sampson has a weaving, elbowing way with him. Breitenstraeter was no Goliath. The first round was fierce. The second round was a great muss and Breitenstraeter was knocked down. In the third round Sampson swung a great blow at Hans Breitenstraeter's jaw. The umpire bent over Hans' prostrate form: "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, kaputt...
When he entered the ring Farmer Lodge, 231 pounds, weighed 13 pounds more than Firpo. For four rounds he was the aggressor...
Glen Iris took 577 steps to cross the judging ring. Dolf von Dusternbrook took...
...field of portraiture that Bellows' greatest talent is found. His oil painting, Introducing John L. Sullivan, clearly shows that he is at his best when treating his favorite subject-the boxing ring. This same subject is even more strikingly handled in his lithographs; the picture Firpo Knocks Out Dempsey is most vivid, both in the drawing of the naked, perspiring bodies of the fighters and in the faces and poses of the spectators and ring officials caught in a moment of suspense...