Word: sikora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blinder Than Basilio. Carmen kept punching. And the beaten little man was not the only one who had trouble seeing straight. Referee Frank Sikora watched him wade into punch after punch, yet gave him round after round. ("What else was you going to do? Body punches? Wooh! He made the fight with them, so I give it to him.") The New York Herald Tribune's Jesse Abramson, a ringside veteran, insisted that the judges who finally overruled Referee Sikora were blinder than Basilio. The punch that closed Carmen's eye, wrote Abramson, was an "incredible piece of luck...
Sandwiched between the judges' score cards that made Sugar Ray the middleweight champ once more, Referee Sikora's astigmatic observation served one purpose: he started an argument that should pack the house for a return brawl-if either fighter is ever...