classic boxing pictures

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beat gus lesnivich didnt he ?

 

great stuff bobby...hope stories like that are never forgotten.

i'd love to get a group of like minded folk to set a site up to document some of the stories surrounding great fighters of the past...there are great articles in old magazines that have just become lost in time, they simply dont write about what goes on outside the ring anymore....ie..i was reading an old magazine article about tommy hurricane jackson lying naked in his dressing room after eddie machan fight, on his back and crying like a baby...the article describes it as the moment the reality of it all being over dawned on him and he broke down....you dont read reports that have that detail any more.....and of course memories like you recall above...
and folks who were there to describe first hand expierences of those fights are becoming fewer and fewer...{see the man in the youtube videos i posted in the bit and pieces thread}...these memories are gold-dust and it would be tragic for them to be lost..

here's another from a book of old newspaper reports i have....i have posted this here before...but, this is the kind of thing i am talking about...the detail in how robinson felt physically here...

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Referee Mushy Callahan counts Carl 'Bobo' Olson out in the
Fourth, thereby ending his Middleweight title shot against Sugar Ray Robinson (1956)

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He Tried.

New York -- Battered, and bruised, his moon face swollen, Tony Galento is pictured in his dressing room after waging an unsuccessful fight for Joe Louis' heavyweight title. Tony was in such bad shape in the fourth round of the scheduled 15 round go that referee Arthur Donovan stepped in and stopped the slaughter. But, and Tony's grandchildren will hear the tale, not before he had the brown bomber, the super champion, the amber assassin, etc., down on the deck. Galento's Special, that long looping left of his, floored the champion for the count of two in the third round. (1939)

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Mickey Walker, former World's Middleweight Champion, looks like an honest-to-goodness newspaperman as he assumes his new duties as sports editor of the Police Gazette. Walker, who retired from the ring in 1937, will write a regular column, "The Bulldog Speaks," and will soon take off on a tour of the country searching for boxing talent that the Gazette can train and sponsor. (1948)

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Arturo Godoy, the Chilean challenger, walks to his dressing room after a futile fight to lift Joe Louis' heavyweight title. Arturo weathered almost seven rounds at Yankee Stadium without much damage; using the same crouch and cling tactics which carried him through 15 rounds of his first fight with the Brown Bomber. But Joe caught him right as the seventh round was ending. Arturo dropped. From then on it was a question of time, and not much time either. Arturo was dropped twice in the next round and referee Billy Cavanaugh stopped the bout to award Joe Louis technical knockout victory in one minute 24 seconds of the eighth round. (1940)

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Former Heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey relives a moment of humiliation on the canvas (1965)

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