Word: tendler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Benny knew how to fight with his head. His most famed rival, Lew Tendler, claimed that Benny had talked him out of the title by whispering disconcerting things between punches. Benny's version: "He caught me over the eye with a left and I felt my knees going under me. I said, That was a good punch, Lew.' I said it in a friendly, matter-of-fact tone of voice and it put the fight on a different plane. Lew snarled, 'Never mind that stuff, come on and fight.' But I stuck out a restraining hand...
Onetime Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard, 44, and his old rival, hammer-hitting Lew Tendler, 42, sparred three rounds at a Philadelphia exhibition for charity, accorded each other the victory. Both now run restaurants, Leonard in Manhattan, Tendler in Philadelphia. Boxer Benny, who won a famous fight from Tendler in 1922 mostly by his wits, had already explained how the paunch-pushing would go: "He's going to hit me with a left hook-not too hard-and I'm going to talk him out of the fight all over again...
...Manhattan set-to between Welterweight Champion Henry Armstrong, Negro buzz saw, and Light weight Champion Lew Jenkins, self-styled "kind of crazy-punching guy." A nontitle fight, it had nevertheless been ballyhooed as the most exciting little-men's match since the days of Lew Tendler and Benny Leonard...