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...Feared Puncher. Even if Foreman wins convincingly, the coronation may be incomplete, and the champion knows it. "I can beat him and knock him out in the first or second round," Foreman says, "but that doesn't mean that people are going to follow me with the same enthusiasm as they did him. It's just something God gave him to have...
Leverett's George Haywood, a calm, unruffled puncher, meets Mather's Terry Brennan in the 155-pound finals today. Steve Hoslinger and Bob Garcia, both of whom survived their semifinal tests unmarked, will box in the upperclass 165-and 175-pound finals, respectively...
...their "heroic publishing effort," and attacking "the overwhelming power of organized labor in this country" and "union tyranny." He kept the papers going by teaching other employees to set type. In the early days of the Richmond strike, he even pressed his wife into service as a tape puncher, and Chairman Bryan pitched in as part-time proofreader...
Hook for Hook. The action in the ring was thoroughly in keeping with the action outside. Very little went according to plan-certainly not Ali's plan, which called for a sixth-round knockout of Frazier. At the opening bell, Joe, the most fearsome body puncher around, went immediately-and wildly-for Ali's head. Ali, the celebrated stick-and-run dancer, very often stood flatfooted and, in what proved to be his ultimate undoing, tried trading hook for jolting hook. In the early going, Ali's long, rapid-fire jabs and lightning combinations kept the ever...
Winfield relies heavily on defense, where he takes advantage of the parry-repulse, his specialty. "I'd rather provoke an attack and then look for an opening," he said. "If I were a boxer, I'd probably be a counter-puncher...