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Entries tagged with "Jersey+Joe+Walcott":

• Greatest KOs in Boxing History – June 18th, 2011

  Everone loves a knockout. And what's not to love? When one man's fists connect with another man's head and he goes crashing to the canvas, everyone's pulse races a little faster. The knockout can not only change the direction of a fight. It can change the direction of a career, the direction of a life...
  
  

• The Stallone Act – July 6th, 2011

  There was no Chuck Zitoesque middleman doing the "hand me the boxing glove, I give it to MISTER Stallone, I hand it back" routine…
  
  

• Rocky Marciano vs. Jersey Joe Walcott – August 4th, 2011

  Jersey Joe Walcott won the heavyweight title in 1951 at the ripe old age of 37. Walcott was a smooth, slick, superb boxer, the ultimate fistic cutie. Walcott's opponent in the second defense of his crown was his polar opposite. Rocky Marciano was a clumsy, awkward slugger who started boxing after a failed career in minor league ball. "Marciano is an amateur," Walcott sneered. "If I lose I deserve to have my name taken out of the record books." The two men met in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium on Sept. 23, 1952. The champ was making the challenger look like a fool, but then, half a minute into the 13th round, Marciano's "Suzie Q" performed her magic...
  
  

• Mike Tyson on Past Heavyweight Champs – August 6th, 2011

  Before he was the youngest man in history to be crowned heavyweight champion at age 20 in 1986, Mike Tyson had learned all there was to learn about heavyweight history. Part of his Catskill education took place in the ring, and part of it took place outside the ring, in front of a portable movie screen watching old fights. Cus D'Amato wanted Tyson to know about the great champions of the past--to give his young charge context, to give the teenaged Tyson a reason to believe he could become one of them...
  
  

• Jack the Ripper’s Dead: Sonny Liston – September 27th, 2011

  There always has to be a boogieman to keep us on our toes and fire our humdrum lives with some dangerous excitement...
  
  

• Jack Dempsey: True Greatness – October 26th, 2011

  A fight to Dempsey was a struggle to the death. That is how he saw it. That was the kind of special fire that burned in his blood...
  
  

• Rock Solid: Magnificent Marciano – November 27th, 2011

  Now to the big question: How good a heavyweight puncher was Rocky Marciano? The simple answer is that he was one of the true elite...
  
  

• Jersey Joe Walcott vs. Ezzard Charles III – January 26th, 2012

  “I started out in life as Arnold Cream. I guess with a name like that I had to learn to fight at any early age.”—Jersey Joe Walcott Jersey Joe Walcott and Ezzard Charles were great fighters in an era of great fighters. They ducked no one, evaded no challenge, and their individual talents were the stuff of legend. Walcott and Charles fought four times over a three-year period. They fought in June 1949, March 1951, July 1951, and June 1952. Their third fight on July 18, 1951, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh was for the heavyweight title Charles won by UD15 over Walcott four months earlier. Walcott was 69-5-1 going in. Charles was 69-5-1. If you like heavyweight fights that are action-packed grudge matches to their very core, Walcott-Charles III, The Ring magazine's Fight of the Year for 1951, is the fight for you...
  
  

• When Fans Go “Oooh and Aaah” – February 3rd, 2012

  Sometimes cuties are flashy or stylish, but more often than not, their calling card is reliance on a crafty persona…
  
  

• Return to Sender – February 7th, 2012

  
  
  

• The Journey of the African-American Boxer – February 8th, 2012

  Decades before baseball admitted Jackie Robinson into its lily white ranks, boxing was making strides to give African-American fighters a fair shake. But then as now, racial overtones influenced who fought who. Icons like John L. Sullivan and Jack Dempsey, even Jack Johnson, drew the color line when it came to fighting their black brothers. Part of it was cultural. Part of it was habit. Part of it was fear of losing to the better man...
  
  

• Last Man Standing – February 19th, 2012

  We must never forget that a boxing match is ultimately about determining who can impose his will on another by using only his wits and his fists…
  
  

• Let the Roses Bloom – February 20th, 2012

  Boxing has suffered so many black eyes over the years that it looks less like a sport than a panda. Boxing, whose aim is questionable...
  
  

• The Big Bombers: Shavers & Co. – April 2nd, 2012

  Like a big shark casting its shadow, you simply never knew what Shavers was going to do next. Would he simply bump you or take a big bite?
  
  

• Old School – May 14th, 2012

  Old school was a behavior influenced by the mores and values of another era. If someone calls me a throwback, I kind of like it…