Word: tami
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his head stopped buzzing, he explained it all very clearly, on the ABC national hookup. Said he: "I thought I could knock him out but I got too goddam careless." Said the announcer: "Thanks very much, Tami...
...Louis so hard it hurts him. By keeping things on a friendly basis, such smart boxers as Bob Pastor and Billy Conn induced the Brown Bomber to toy with them for as many as eleven and 13 rounds before the inevitable kill. But Tami (rhymes with mammy) Mauriello, the tubby Bronx challenger, decided to play rough. At the opening bell of last week's title fight he walked out from his corner, took one look at the overconfident Louis, and pitched a right with the urgency of a man unloading a hand grenade. It connected, and the world...
...Tami had been quicker on the trigger, he might have followed up his advantage. Instead, he reaped _the whirlwind. While the small (38,494) Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Joe Louis v. Tami Mauriello, for the world's heavyweight crown...
...Manhattan, it was the highly touted heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Bruce Woodcock, an ex-Yorkshire railroad hand. Against tubby Tami Mauriello, No. 3 U.S. heavyweight, Woodcock showed he could dish it out, but he failed to keep after his man when he had him on the run. In the fifth round, the two were drubbing away at each other's midsections when Mauriello suddenly lifted his fire and landed on Woodcock's jaw. The Englishman, unbeaten in 25 fights, went down and tottered up a little too late. The referee had already counted...