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When Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale meet in the ring, bloodthirsty fight fans get what they pay for. Before knocking out Rocky last fall, Middleweight Champion Zale acquired a cut lip, red welts around both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped thumb bone and such weak knees that his handlers had to hold him up in the shower. What Tony and Rocky did to each other in last week's return bout, to the loud delight of 18,547 fans, was something to behold...
Middleweight Championship (Wed. 11 p.m., NBC). Champion Tony Zale v. Rocky Graziano...
Cerdan is now a likely opponent for Tony Zale, who must defend his title by summer. It is up to Zale (and his manager Sam Pian) to decide which would be more profitable: a match outside New York with Graziano (who is banned in New York for failing to report a bribe offer), or one with Cerdan in Manhattan...
...reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back to duck the fight). Last week the New York Athletic Commission barred Graziano indefinitely from New York rings. The ban meant the end of next month's Madison Square Garden title fight with Middleweight Champ Tony Zale. But all was not lost: from hungry promoters in Cleveland, Chicago and points west came offers for fights for Rocky...
...dripping with the evils of commercialism. Last week, Middleweight Rocky Graziano, whose conversation usually ranges from "Yeah" to "Nunhh," was quoted at length "in his own words" about being offered a $100,000 bribe. The New York State Athletic Commission debated whether to cancel his championship fight with Tony Zale. Three more big-league football-betting bookies were indicted...