Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game. His chunky muscles were perfect for boxing, though, and what he lacked in finesse he more than made up in battering-ram power. After turning pro in 1947, he piled up 42 straight victories, most of them by knockouts, before earning a title bout with Champion Jersey Joe Walcott in 1952. "This kid can't fight," scoffed Walcott. "If I don't whip him, take my name out of the record books." Thirteen rounds later, Walcott was out, knocked senseless by a classic right. Marciano successfully defended his title six times before retiring in 1956, after...
...Most of the grapes we feed the students are from California," Benjamin H. Walcott, assistant purchasing agent, said in an interview Tuesday. "We know there is some sort of moral issue involved and we are behind it, but our function here is to get the best grapes for our money...
...navigators were flung around the cockpits like rag dolls as their boats stuttered across the stony seas. Aboard Thunderbird V, a 31-ft. inboard, Novice Navigator Rocky Marciano, now 43, wished openly that he had stayed on dry land. "I'd rather fight Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott at the same time," the ex-heavyweight champ told Driver Dick Genth...
...Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Marciano, Jersey Joe Walcott, Joe Louis and Joey Giardello...
Cassius' biggest pain was in his pocketbook. His share of the purse was only $100,000-the smallest payoff to a defending champion since 1952, when Jersey Joe Walcott got $92,000 for fighting Ezzard Charles for the fourth time...