Word: roach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stop It!" For seven rounds, the fast-stepping Texan fought rings around his opponent, swarthy George Small of Brooklyn. Roach was so far ahead on points that he could not help winning-if he just stayed out of trouble. But in the eighth round Small let go a desperation right and it crashed flush on Roach's jaw. It ripped the flesh inside his mouth and blood gushed from his lips. Roach's legs buckled; staggering, slack-jawed and glassy-eyed, he hung...
...lasted through the ninth, his wavy brown hair damp and matted, his body streaked with red from Small's blood-smeared gloves. When the bell sounded for the tenth round Roach doggedly came out into the ring again. Small jabbed a soggy left to his mouth. The blood trickled down from Roach's battered mouth, splattering down on his black boxing trunks...
Then a vicious right put Roach down for a count of nine. Even Manhattan's bloodthirsty boxing fans seemed to sense what was about to happen and began yelling: "Stop it! Stop it!" Referee Frank Fullam did stop it-after another punch had sent Roach sprawling to the deck. By then it was too late...
...Right." As Roach lay half-conscious in the ring, a doctor jumped quickly through the ropes. "I'm all right...
...Roach muttered thickly. "I'm getting up." But it took two men to help get him back to his corner. The referee asked him the prize ring's compass question: where was he? "I'm all right," Roach insisted. "I'm in the St.Nicholas Arena...