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Last week in the decrepit Chicago Amphitheater, in the middle of the stockyards, Joe and Floyd ("Jumbo") Cummings fought to a melancholy ten-round draw. Frazier may still shake buildings, but what once would have been lethal lefts did not move Jumbo, a muscle-bound 30-year-old ex-convict, who almost knocked Joe out three different times. Joe's left eye was blackened, his lower lip was frayed, his face was starting to lose definition just like in the old days, and he felt wonderful. "It was worth it to me," he said. "When I got shook...
Trevor Berbick won a lopsided ten-round unanimous decision last night over Muhammad Ali. Berbick was content to hit Ali in the body, and never really attempted to knock...
...know how Ali will explain his loss--his unwillingness after so much training and so much bravado to give it a real try. How can he explain that he threw only thirty punches in a ten-round fight? How can he convince us that he didn't choke, or that he had never really intended to win and just wanted to pick up $8 million in cool cash...
...boxing coach at the K. of C. while studying law, got his degree in 1926, and then joined his family in Miami. There he became the top sparring partner of Jack Britton, who was working to regain the world welterweight championship. Fighting at 148 lbs., Sirica won a ten-round semifinal match in Miami, leading a local newspaper to head line him as a "Great Little Mitt Artist." Sirica fought a few other local "smoker" matches but quit boxing after his mother "raised all kinds of hell with me." She thought that he ought to be using his law degree...
...network men, and to their viewers, the abbreviated evening of Richard Nixon's landslide resembled a first-round knockout in a scheduled ten-round match. After 9 p.m. the anchor men seemed stunned; there was little left to say. The projections were in, the landslide gaining momentum; all that remained were the interviews and the instant analysis. Frustrated, facing empty hours with few ingredients, ABC, NBC and CBS retired almost as if they were a bit ashamed of the size of the Nixon swamp...