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...face looking like a leftover hamburger. Prosecutors badgered him, accused him of covering up bribe offers. Among his managers was Killer Eddie Coco. But Rocky won most of his bouts. In the ring the old street fighter came back. One hot July night in 1947, he knocked out Tony Zale in a celebrated pier-six brawl and won the middleweight championship of the world...
Next year Zale took the title back in another Donnybrook. In and out of trouble with boxing's bigwigs, Rocky managed to keep himself in contention until 1952. Then, in Chicago, Sugar Ray Robinson knocked him out, and convinced him that he was through. But the man who finally turned his back on the ring was no longer the wise guttersnipe, the terror of Tenth Street. He had calmed down enough to become a TV comedian...
...press agent-like build-up for the annual amateur boxing tournament. Since the tale involves two fighters after the same girl, the picture must rely on its prize-fighting scenes, which are, for the most part, mediocre. One of the hangers-on is former middleweight champ Tony Zale, who handles his one line with considerable finesse. The movie introduces Dewey Martin as one of the fighters, and should he ever contemplate acting in another film somebody ought to punch him in the nose for fair...
...salamis and I don't give a damn if I get hit ... I don't know what the hell's the matter with me." Reporters asked him about a walnut-sized lump on his forehead and he said it was a souvenir of the last Tony Zale fight. Was he punchy? Rocky went on: "Every place I go it's 'What's this bribe story?' or 'What's with the Army?' It's as if I was ready to go to jail." He thought...
Boxing Doubleheader (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). Tony Zale v. Marcel Cerdan and Gus Lesnevich v. Jersey Joe Walcott...