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...bouts, including the $10 million George Foreman v. Muhammad Ali extravaganza in Zaïre last fall. Next Monday he will add a fifth when Ali fights European Champion Joe Bugner in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the climax of a closed-circuit tripleheader that will also include light-heavyweight and middleweight title fights in New York City. In the fall King hopes to cap his promotions with a $12 million Ali-Joe Frazier rematch, probably in the Philippines. That would bring the total take of King ring deals to more than $30 million. "He's done impossible things," says...
...Died. James J. Braddock, 68, heavyweight champion of the world (1935-37); in North Bergen, NJ. After a promising start as a middleweight in the '20s, Braddock's luck faltered. During the Depression he worked on the docks and went on the dole, but he kept on fighting -and losing. After a surprise victory in 1934, he disposed of three strong contenders for the heavyweight crown and earned a shot at Champion Max Baer's title. Braddock skillfully outboxed Baer for 15 rounds, winning a unanimous decision and Damon Runyon's sobriquet "the Cinderella...
...Sports. A look at the famous Rocky Graziano-Sugar Ray Robinson middleweight championship fight in 1952. Graziano finished his career with this fight, going in a 3-1 underdog and the brawling, sentimental favorite, but coming out a bruised and beaten fighter with a 67-10-6 final record. Robinson--who ended up with an impressive 175-19-6 record--announced his first retirement nine months after this fight. Unfortunately, Curt Gowdy is the host. Ch. 2, 8 p.m. 1/2 hour...
Jones had been an expatriate in Paris for 15 years. He has a nostalgically appealing, soft-core cynicism about politicians and foreign policy reminiscent of those 1930s' middleweight movie heroes. It is what made his first book, From Here to Eternity-with its individualistic little guy battling bravely but tragically against the system-not a war novel but a rich chunk of Depression realism...
...Gebhard's loss has been particularly difficult on us because he is one of the few good men we have in the 158-lb. middleweight class," Lee said...