Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each other, while men in all walks of life entered Kelley and Hayes' Gymnasium at $.25 a head of watch them. Sharkey returned to tape his hands and went on to give his opinion of the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. "If it hadn't been for the knockdown in the seventh round there wouldn't have been any fight at all. But I think that Tunney could have gotten up on the count of three." (in the seventh round Dempsey had protested a long count over the prostrate Tunney.) "Dempsey couldn't win; he was outclassed. I feel that...
Jack Bernstein, who was born on the New York East Side, next door to Benny Leonard, was awarded the junior lightweight championship of the world after 15 furious rounds with Johnny Dundee at the New York Velodrome. Dundee scored the only knockdown of the fight and was indignant at the verdict. Popular opinion gave him only five rounds of the fight, three even, seven to Bernstein...
Died. Arthur Chambers, 75, former lightweight champion of the world, at Philadelphia. In 1879 at Chippewa Falls, Canada, he fought the longest bout on record, 136 rounds. The fight was under the old .London rules whereby a knockdown counted as a round. When the late Marquis of Queensbury decided to formulate rules to elevate the sport, he consulted Chambers and their joint efforts resulted in the regulations under which boxing contests are now held...