Word: uppercut
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DeMarco, his right eye encircled with blood from a cut which was opened in the ninth round, spun helplessly into the ropes from the finishing Akins uppercut...
Akins, the church deacon from St. Louis who waited for the Boston battler to punch himself out, finished the bout with a jarring right uppercut and Referee Eddie Bradley stepped in to call a halt at 1:53 of the round...
CHICAGO, Dec. 10--Sugar Ray Robinson exploded a terrific barrage and finished with a vicious right uppercut to knock out champion Bobo Olson in 2:51 of the second round in a middleweight title bout at the Chicago Stadium tonight...
...since famed The Plough and the Stars, an irreverent treatment of the 1916 Irish revolution. It roused Irish fury to such patriotic heights that shrieking, whistling men and women stampeded for the stage to drag the actors off. Actor Barry Fitzgerald met the first charging patriot with an uppercut that sent him flying back into the stalls. One actress threw her shoe at the attackers. It was caught and thrown back at Poet W. B. Yeats, a director of the Irish national theater, who was vainly trying to make a speech in the din. Finally the Civic Guards...
...first round. Challenger Ezzard Charles jolted the heavyweight champion with a right uppercut. Rocky Marciano lowered his head, and an irritated scowl flickered across his splayed features. Then, unperturbed, Rocky plodded back into the fight. He had taken the challenger's best punch; Charles was already a beaten boxer...