His was a wonderful, seamless blend of culture and controlled savagery. He stalked and threw punches constantly in the manner of Rocky Marciano, but with far greater education and precision. At his ...
Tony Zale! The name and mention of the Zale-Rocky Graziano trilogy jumped right out at me as I read Mike Houser's weekly boxing column, but not for the reason you might think. Known as "The Man of ...
Marcel Cerdan Jnr, the oldest of three sons born to the great former middleweight champion of the world Marcel Cerdan Snr, has died of pneumonia in Issy-les Moulineaux, France, at the age of 81, ...
After many a summer, a foreign fighter reached the U.S. without bringing along a glass chin and a pair of collapsible knees. In smoke-hazy Madison Square Garden, hairy-chested Marcel Cerdan, ...
PARIS — Celine Dion’s Brobdingnagian return to public singing last Friday night tethered itself to sports because it happened at an Olympic Opening Ceremonies at the Eiffel Tower, but to many an ear ...
In Madison Square Garden, it was an even pleasanter affair for another Frenchman. He won. Marcel Cerdan, middleweight boxing champion of Europe, had a handicap to face in the U.S.; European boxers ...
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