Word: uppercutted
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That was the high point of the fight. Too wise to give Chocolate another opening, Watson chopped at him warily for the next four rounds. In the 12th. Watson cut Chocolate's lip with a right uppercut. He won the 15th as well, but both judges, the referee and most of the crowd agreed that Chocolate still deserved his title...
...exciting. Poreda, a handsome, over-confident Pole, came out en- thusiastically for the first round. He outboxed Schaaf and continued to outbox him in the second until, when the round was more than half over, Schaaf landed the blow that really settled the fight. This was a short right uppercut which caught Poreda squarely on the jaw, landed him on the ring floor so suddenly that he forgot to stay down for a count of nine...
...crowd roared again in the eleventh, when Walker landed with an uppercut and put Sharkey on the ropes again. Sharkey, his face set into lines of exasperation and doubt, let a punch or two go low, rubbed Walker's bad eye with the heel of his glove, "fished" instead of hitting with his left hand which was hurt early in the fight. He rallied in the last rounds, won the 15th and stood shuffling his feet in his corner while the referee spoke to the judges. There was one vote for a draw, one each for Sharkey and Walker...
...threw him off balance, mixed him up, hurt him. In the third round Sharkey hit him hard four times on the jaw. Schmeling wobbled to the ropes, covered his face with his elbows, weathered the round. In the fourth he rushed at Sharkey as the latter led a hard uppercut at his body. As the punch landed. Schmeling fell forward, writhing, gripping his groin. Handlers and managers jumped into the ring. Referee Jim Crowley, thin, baldheaded, hatchet-faced, ran from corner to corner, asking the two ring judges what they thought. One judge had not seen the punch. The other...
Said Retired Champion Gene Tunney, a ringside spectator: "It was low ... a dangerous punch. Once I tried an uppercut like that against Chuck Wiggins. I fouled him twice and the referee warned me. The third time I landed low the referee became quite peeved. Then Chuck Wiggins spoke for the first time. 'Gee whiz, Mr. Referee, that punch...