Clarence George
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Obie Walker: Enfant Terrible
Did ?The Brown Bomber? avoid ?The Black Boxcar?? Apparently, but so did Primo Carnera and Max Schmeling, among other worthies? ?I hits and there they are on the floor.??Obie Walker Born on…
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The Unknown Unknown Winston
?Winston wasn?t championship material,? wrote boxing columnist Billy Prince on April 6, 1958, ?but he was a real rough-tough guy? ? ?The appropriately nicknamed Unknown Winston.??Randy Roberts Of little consequence, perhaps, but…
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Junior Munsell: Indian Fighter
His first loss came on July 16, 1936, courtesy of Max Baer, who knocked him out in the fifth at the Coliseum in Tulsa? ?When the white man discovered this country, Indians…
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Sugar Ray Robinson: In the Pink
My father told me it was salmon, quickly thrusting into my hands a copy of Playboy when I asked why he didn?t get a car that color? ?Well, you may go to…
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May 27, 1960: When Vegas Became King
Around the time the Tropicana and the Dunes were headlining ?Jayne Mansfield and a few sequins?? boxing in Nevada has been all Las Vegas? ?Las Vegas. The City of Lights. Everything is…
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Charley Retzlaff: No Laffing Matter
Damon Runyon compared him to Jack Dempsey, calling him ?the best-looking heavyweight prospect that had bobbed up in a long time?? ?Louis may have been ready for the world, but he had…
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Roger Donoghue: Everybody Knew
Schulberg once asked Donoghue, ?Could you have been a champion?? Well, Donoghue answered, ?I could have been a contender?? ?We?d go in a bar and two minutes later the bartender is his…
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When Boxing Was a Catholic Sport
Though Manny Pacquiao is now an apostate, Tyson Fury remains a hardcore believer and practitioner. Sorta? ?Other sports such as baseball, tennis and squash racquets have their place, but their common drawback…
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Red Applegate: Going the Distance
Applegate should be remembered for going the distance with Rocky Marciano, one of the heaviest hitters in the history of the heavyweight division? ?There should be a little star or something by…
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Carmine Fatta: Fighting Fury
Given his 95 fights over what really amounted to only six years (an average of 16 bouts a year), it?s no surprise Fatta took on all comers? ?It is nice to know…
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Monsignor Kelliher: Pugilist Priest
From 1928 to 1932, he fought first as the ?Masked Marvel? and then as the ?Red Devil? in Montreal, Toronto, Cleveland, and Buffalo? ?If the ?sweet science? has a soul, it comes…
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1936: It Was a Very Good Year
In 1936, according to The Ring, Schmeling?s kayo of ?The Chocolate Cobra? made him top pretender to Braddock?s throne? ?Now, not only did I have to beat a man, but I had…
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Bill Poland: Hebrew Heavyweight
Once upon a time, there were guys like Abe Feldman, Abe Simon, Art Lasky, Bob Pastor, Max and Buddy Baer (well, maybe), and?Bill Poland. ?A true credit to boxing.??The New Jersey Boxing…
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Pappy Gault: Spartan of Spartanburg
Pappy fought someone actually named Yogi O?Bera, knocking him out in the sixth at Textile Hall in Greenville, South Carolina, on July 16, 1953? ?If you asked a hundred people about my…
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Frankie Terranova: Club Fighter
Frankie Terranova seemed to have a thing for guys named Greb. In addition to Larry, he took on Joey and Mickey? ?I don?t want to die without any scars.??Fight Club Not younger…
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Big Bob Baker
Baker didn?t much talk about his boxing days, according to his son, his mementos winding up ?in the bottom of a box on the shelf?? ?Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker?s man.??Nursery Rhyme Born in…
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Stillman?s Gym and the Underwater Treadmill
Boxing has been turned over to self-important, know-nothing technocrats. Did the guys who worked out at Stillman?s have underwater treadmills? ?Oh, the humanity!??Herbert Morrison In what was more of a foregone conclusion…
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Dommy Ursua: The Watch Fob Marciano
I don?t know if that makes up for the begging and starving, for a degraded old age, but it?s a pretty sweet epitaph? ?Dynamite comes in small packages.??Unknown He died age 72…
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Errol Flynn: Lover and Fighter
Flynn was indeed under the impression that Beverly was 18. Ah, but once he found out that she was barely out of pigtails?it was full steam ahead? ?I like my whisky old…
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Babe Farmer: Two Ton?s First
?Nothing good will come of it,? said an unimpressed Papa Galento. ?Here you come home, cut and bleeding and bruised. You call that a sport?? ?A policeman?s lot is not a happy…