Word: knockdown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stool in the corner, walked across the ring. The Negro knocked him down, first with a solid left hook to the chin for a referee's count of two, then, when Levinsky got up, three times more, for counts of five, five and four. After the fourth knockdown, instead of falling on the floor, Levinsky collapsed on the ropes in the corner of the ring. Dazed and beaten, he muttered something which the referee mercifully took for a superfluous confession that the fight was over...
Princes Andreja and Tomislav of Jugoslavia were indulging in a knockdown & drag-out fight in the Royal Palace at Belgrade last week when His Majesty Peter II poked his head into the Royal nursery...
...actively annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash. He collects, as a matter of fact, all manner of weapons and murderous devices. His manners are anything but mild. Only dogs, old ladies and children escape his tongue lashings...
...material for next year by taking the 145-pound event with decisive victories over Murray W. Dewart '37 and Robert S. Russell '35. Peter B. Olney '37 lived up to expectations by outpointing Herman Gross 1L in the final 155-pound match and William C. Brister 2GB scored a knockdown in the final round of the 175-pound finals to boat Gordon F. Robertson '36 for the title...
...nine rounds Loughran stepped away from Sharkey, repeatedly flicking his opponent's face with light jabs which did no damage. In the tenth Sharkey wearily floundered into a stiff right which caught him squarely on the chin. He dropped flat on his face-the first knockdown Loughran had scored in years. He was on his feet before the referee could start to count, attacked Loughran's body savagely for the remaining five rounds, but that one punch cost Sharkey the fight. Two judges disagreed; the referee cast the deciding vote for Loughran because of the knockdown...