on this day in boxing history..

March 1 - 1940 - Henry Armstrong appears to defeat middleweight champion Ceferino Garcia after 10 rounds in Los Angeles, but the referee George Blake calls the bout a draw, preventing Armstrong from winning his fourth world title.

''Garcia nailed me with his bolo punch'' Armstrong was quoted as saying after his bout with Garcia.
''The blow dazed me for a few seconds''. ''But I was never hurt so bad where I didn't know what I was doing''


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March 2nd 1922

Harry Wills v Kid Norfolk

Norfolk challenged Dempsey's most qualified and persistent challenger, Harry Wills. Wills was an awesome physical specimen and in hindsight, it was suicide for Norfolk to challenge him. But the Kid had faced much larger men before and to him Wills was just another giant for him to slay. Wills and Norfolk met in New York on March 2, 1922. When the two battlers met in the middle of the ring the mismatch was apparent to all that surveyed the two men. The disparity in size was alarming (Wills 6'2" 230 and Norfolk 5'9" 185). Wills stood almost a full foot taller that Norfolk and looked as if he could sweep him away with one stoke of his long ebony arms. The fight itself was little more than a public beating with Wills plastering the helpless Norfolk for a full round and a half before depositing him on the canvas with a vicious right hand midway through the second. Norfolk gamely tried to rise but could not find his footing. The fight was waved off when the Kid rose stumbled and then fell back into the ropes.

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march 4th 1968

big double header at the garden.

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march 5th 1965

From Sports Illustrated..

If the scuffle between Ernie Terrell and Eddie Machen in Chicago proved anything, it was that, after Cassius Clay and Sonny Liston, boxing's heavyweights are lightweights. Terrell was embarrassingly inept and the fight often ludicrous. When it ended Ernie was solemnly proclaimed the heavyweight champion of the world—a world, unfortunately for his pocketbook, that does not include Clay or Liston. Since his manager, Big Julie Isaacson, has ruled out Floyd Patterson as a contender, this leaves Terrell with an empty title—champion of the World Boxing Association—and a world of leisure time.

Off his conquest of Machen, Terrell does not appear to be either a formidable or a desirable foe for Clay. The heavyweight picture remains much the same as before: Clay's only worthwhile opposition is Liston, followed by Floyd Patterson should Cassius beat Sonny again in Boston on May 25.

The trouble with Terrell is that he is a year or two away from being anything like a competent fighter. But if he works with Joe Louis on developing his right into a weapon as effective as his left, he could be dangerous. Against Machen the lack of an effective right hand was painfully apparent, even though Terrell threw the right more often than he has in the past. But once Machen sneaked in under that long, long left hand, Terrell's only tactic was to fold himself over the smaller man, wrapping him in what looked and doubtless felt like yards and yards of arms. Since Machen tried to avoid the long left by bobbing and crouching, the fight was carried on in an area somewhere between Terrell's knees and his waistband. Machen could not reach high enough to punch effectively, and Terrell could not stoop low enough. When it was over Joe Louis, who had sat in Terrell's corner, summed it up neatly.

"It was a lousy fight," Joe said in Terrell's dressing room. "He didn't fight good. But the other man didn't let him make a good fight. Seem like he didn't want to make a good fight."

Actually, Machen looked much better than he did last year against Floyd Patterson in Stockholm. He is a far more polished fighter than Terrell; he may be the best pure boxer in the division.

"I wanted to be aggressive," he said after the fight.

"He was robbed," said his wife, standing behind him. "It's that simple."

"I thought I won pretty big," Eddie said. "He didn't hit me five times with that jab all night. He's got a good punch there, but it wasn't a factor in this fight."

At times during the fight Machen looked like a man facing several batters in a pepper game. Terrell's left jab is a long, straight and hard punch, and he uses it with pistonlike speed. Machen's defense against it was to keep both gloves in front of his face and catch Terrell's jab in one or the other. It worked well as a protective device but, with both hands engaged in fielding jabs, Machen had little time for punching.

"He's a hard guy to fight," Eddie said. "He's awful tough to get inside on because he's all arms when you get in close. And he's strong."

Machen bent over to pull on tight charcoal trousers.

"He's as hard to fight as any of them," he said softly. "And I've seen a lot of them."

He shrugged into his coat and prepared to leave. As he went he said, to himself, "Just keep right in there winging, Eddie. One of these days...."

Terrell, with a mouse under his left eye, looked more battered than the loser.

"I tried to fight, and he wouldn't fight," Terrell said to the small group of writers surrounding him. He gingerly touched the swelling under his eye.

"This he didn't do with no punch," he said. "He laced me. And he kept sticking that thumb in my eye, too. You can see what it did to me. They was times out there I could see three Machens. I had to try to pick the right one and hit him."

He seemed somber for a newly crowned heavyweight champion, but in answer to a question he said he certainly considered himself the champion of the world.

"As far as I'm concerned," he said, "Clay and Liston are two unranked fighters."

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march 6th 1985...tyson makes his pro debut..

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60 years ago today....march 7th 1951 - Ezzard Charles beats Jersey Joe Walcott in 15 for the heavyweight title

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40 years ago today.

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this day in 1969 jimmy wilde passed away aged 76.

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"As an elderly man (aged 72), Jimmy was attacked and beaten by a gang of cowardly thugs at a train station in Cardiff, Wales, from which he never recovered. He lived the remainder of his life oblivious to what he had accomplished in the ring."

 

13th march 1961

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22nd march 1967

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