Hope fans didn't arrive late; this "Brown Bomber" had 3 straight first-round knockouts in title fights
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jeopardy/1432_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 3 ... THE WEASEL FAMILY | Ironically, this creature had been unseen in Michigan for 200 years until one .... THE FAST | Hope fans didn't arrive late; this "Brown Bomber" had 3 straight first-round knockouts in title fights | Joe Louis.
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Joe Louis facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ...  By breaking the color barrier that had been imposed on boxing after black .... round, he had won nine straight matches, seven of them by knockouts. ... For the first few rounds he managed to fend off Louis' powerful jabs, and ... The Brown Bomber .... Twice he donated the proceeds from title fights to the Navy Relief Fund.
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Headline - The Ringside Boxing Show  Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, he is considered to be one of the greatest ... He participated in 27 heavyweight championship fights, a record which still stands. ... He won 12 fights that year, all in Chicago, 10 by way of knockout. ... his left low after a jab, Schmeling handed Louis his first loss by knocking him out in round 12...
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SecondsOut Boxing News - Thomas Hauser - Rocky Marciano ...  It wasn't until late in his career that the fight became part of his public record. ... For the first two rounds, Epperson outboxed his opponent, who took punch after punch and kept throwing wild .... Marciano began 1949 with four consecutive knockouts. .... He wasn't marketed as a great white hope, but he didn't have to be.
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American Experience | The Fight | Transcript | PBS  Sep 22, 2004 ... WALTER SMITH, Louis' Friend: The first time I seen Joe, he worked on .... another future heavyweight, 20 year-old Max Schmeling, arrived in ... NARRATOR: Since the late 19th Century, the heavyweight championship had been largely ..... NARRATOR: With an evangelical following of black fight fans, Mike...
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Heavy Stuff : Only Three Boxers Have Regained Heavyweight Title ...  Jun 22, 1997 ... Only three fighters have become heavyweight champs again in second fights with ... But they don't compare in anticipation and drama with Jack Dempsey's failure to regain the title against Gene Tunney in the "Battle of the Long Count" in 1927. ... Louis defended his title three times and then met Schmeling.
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Aaron Pryor: A boxing life remembered - The Undefeated  Oct 19, 2016 ... There were more household names then and the fans knew the value of the fighters. ... The punch momentarily stunned Pryor before he resumed his relentless attack. .... The training was especially meaningful for Pryor-Mitchell, who did ..... field goal against the New Orleans Saints at MetLife Stadium on...
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HaglerHearns: Will & Determination (1985)  Boxing News  Apr 14, 2010 ... On a cold winter's day in February 1985, the HaglerHearns fight ... Even before the bell for Round 1 echoed, the fight was an instant classic: ... Thomas Hearns was the Super Welterweight Champion with a .... Not only that, but Hearns ko'd Duran. .... He had them all, and he would be forever Marvelous.
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Byrd shouldn't be watching - Boston.com  Apr 6, 2005 ... That is in large part because he and the rest of his heavyweight ... King claims he included a comeback fight in the deal for Byrd if he lost, which ... More than a few people also blame Kozerski, who still has opponent refusal rights when Byrd fights, because he ... You want to know why fights don't get made?
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Showtime boxing preview: Provodnikov vs Molina and undercard ...  Jun 7, 2016 ... But for the most part, against his better opponents, he has come up short. ... But if it's the Matthysse from the Broner and Soto fights, he'll probably get overwhelmed. ... Nelson isn't bad to watch, though, and if he can force Andrade to fight ... though, as he signed with Al Haymon and made his U.S. debut last...
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April - Five Tool Tool - The Sports Blog That Loves You Back  Apr 27, 2008 ... Tonight in Philly, the Pistons slept through another half before showing ... The fact is, nobody knows what, if anything, this weekend will mean for any team. ... with a chance in hell of staying in front of Tony Parker -- take a bigger role. ...... All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand: Spurs (3) vs.
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1173 - - RareNewspapers.com  The headline at the top of the page: "CARDS WIN '26 WORLD TITLE IN HECTIC ... THE NEW YORK TIMES, October 7, 1981 There is a three-line front page .... "FUTURE OF AIR TRANSPORT: BY THREE LEADERS Colonel Lindbergh, Dr.
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Baseball Crank: Baseball 2002-03 Archives  Every team wishes they'd signed Barry Bonds or Greg Maddux in 1993, or Reggie in .... With Atlanta last season, Hernandez went 5-3 with a 4.35 ERA in 66 games. ... Yes, Brown lost 2002 and half of 2001 to injuries, a risk everyone knew the ...... trade for Robin Ventura: Adrian Beltre has gone hitless 49 times this season,...
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ESPN.com: 'Brown Bomber' was a hero to all  Louis, on the other hand, converted all into his corner. When "The Brown Bomber" avenged his loss to Germany's Max Schmeling -- viewed as a Nazi symbol...
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List of boxing triple champions - Wikipedia  In boxing, a triple champion is a boxer who has won world titles in three weight classes. ... Barney Ross was the first boxer to simultaneously hold world titles in two different ... Henry Armstrong was the first man to hold three titles in three divisions ... justify a claim as the true and only world champion in a given weight class.
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70 moments that made Ali great | ShortList Magazine  2) The first person I ever knocked out was my mom. ... as he loses a six-round decision to become the now-heavyweight Clay's first professional victim. ... The goading of Sonny Liston, in an effort to get a world title fight, is ceaseless. .... 1 October 1975: Frazier's corner stop their man from getting up for the 15th round. Ali...
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Joe Louis - Wikipedia  Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914  April 12, 1981), best known as Joe Louis and nicknamed the "Brown Bomber", was an American professional boxer who competed from ... Detroit's Joe Louis Arena, home of the Detroit Red Wings of the National .... The man who had been called the Brown Bomber was finished.
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Rocky Boxing Smackdown Explosion!: The Champ! | Lebeau's le Blog  Nov 24, 2015 ... The Final- Rocky vs Clubber Lang ... So this bracket game gave me a little breathing room knowing that there was content for the readers while I was tied up. ..... I should dig the CD out again  I haven't listened to it  ... I read that it stays light later that far north (sometimes the sun ... Hitting Rock Bottom
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Freddie Miller (boxer) - Revolvy  Miller successfully defended his title 12 times. ... Miller fought Tommy Paul six times, more than any other boxer he has faced. ... Freddie Miller may refer to: Freddie Miller (broadcaster) (19291992), ..... Zwick received a shot at the National Boxing Association featherweight title in 1941. ..... Nicknamed the "Brown Bomber".
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List of boxing triple champions - Wikipedia  In boxing, a triple champion is a boxer who has won world titles in three weight classes. ... Henry Armstrong was the first man to hold three titles in three divisions ... Same Division - A fighter who has won at least 3 titles in the same weight class. ... There are currently only two ways that a boxer can win The Ring's title: defeat...
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Joe Louis - Boxer - Biography.com  Aug 8, 2016 ... Known as the "Brown Bomber," Joe Louis was an African-American boxer ... but was soon forced to take on odd jobs after Brooks lost his job with the Ford Motor Company. After Louis began hanging out with a local gang, Lillie sought to ... an eighth-round knockout by Rocky Marciano on October 26, 1951,...