Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well in advance, the fight had been labeled a "stinkeroo." Shuffling Jersey Joe Walcott, never a dashing crowd-pleaser, was old (35) and tired. His opponent, thin-mustached Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati, was young enough (27), but he was a second-rater without punch or drive. Just before they squared off in Chicago's Comiskey Park last week, a hanger-on wriggled in to where Joe Louis sat in the fourth row and asked breathlessly: "Champ, have you got a last-minute pick?" Deadpan Joe, the front man for boxing's new promotional monopoly, mumbled forthrightly...
This week in Chicago, I.B.C. puts on its second big show (Jersey Joe Walcott v. Ezzard Charles). Tongue-in-cheek sport-writers have been touting it as the "slightly" heavyweight championship. Said Boxing Director Louis, squelching a rumor that he might give up promoting and make a ring comeback: "Promoting don't pay as well as fightin', but it lasts longer...
Ezzard Charles won the heavyweight "championship" of the world minus New York and England last night by a unanimous 15-round decision over Joe Walcott in Comiskey Park, Chicago...
Most dance cards only have 14 rounds. This had 15, with waltzes predominating. No one was knocked down; Charles fell once as Walcott leaned heavily on him in the middle of the fight...
...being staled in television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...