Word: spalla
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Ermino Spalla, onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Europe, to Senorita Esmeralda Ascoli; at Rome, amid a crowd of enthusiasts...
Last week, the Italian Boxing Federation banned the proposed bout between Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champion of Italy, and his brother, Giuseppe Spalla. Infuriated at what he termed, in an excited tirade, the mollycoddlishness of the Federation, Giuseppe declared that, if the bout could not be held in public, it would certainly take place in private, under any convenient conditions. Financial as well as athletic differences are said to have estranged Erminio and Giuseppe...
Over the Alps in Italy lay the heavyweight boxing championship of Europe, secure in the possession of fierce Erminio Spalla. Undaunted, huge Piet Vanderveer of Holland journeyed to Milan, undressed, put on his fighting gloves, attacked the champion. An enormous crowd of Italians, no less demonstrative than most of their countrymen, loosed vociferous cheers as first one big man and then the other launched staggering blows. Piet rushed the fight. Erminio beat him back. On came Piet again, pummeling, fighting close. Erminio thumped him solidly. By the 20th round honors stood even. Then Erminio fell upon brave Piet...
...Staggering blindly, Ermino Spalla, Italian Colossus, sought refuge on the floor from the rude jars dealt him by Gene Tunney, American light-heavyweight champion; was declared technically unconscious in the seventh round...
...sporting fraternity was given to understand that Wills would box Firpo (Pampas Bull) in Jersey City on June 28 or July 5. If Firpo holds to his announced intention of retiring, Rickard is likely to select either Romero-Rojas the Chilean, or Spalla the Italian, or both, to take the Negro's blows. Unless the Negro is knocked out, Rickard will let him have at Dempsey in September...