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- The pro-De La Hoya crowd booed the split decision in favor of Mayweather.
- It doesn't mean they were right to do so.
- The Associated Press reported: "Ali seemed content to toy in the first four rounds, doing very little fighting. He then began coming on in the fifth round and started landing with power, although he still missed much more than he usually does. Ali's best round seemed to be the ninth, when he went up on his toes and snapped home at least 25 punishing jabs to Young's face. But then he went flatfooted again and, while landing some good rights, he was the target of several hard rights in the final three rounds when Young came on strong. It was the only time in the fight that Young was the actual aggressor and that lack of aggressiveness early on cost him dearly."
- On six occasions, Young ducked outside of the ropes when he was pressured by Ali. He did it in the seventh round, the eighth, the 12th, twice in the 13th, and once more in the 15th. When he did it in the 12th round, the referee ruled it a knockdown and began to count. Young pulled his head back into the ring at the count of two. Mark Kram of Sports Illustrated wrote: "It was unconscionable behavior for a man who wants the heavyweight championship of the world."
- The decision was loudly booed by the crowd. Mark Kram wrote: "There was no way anyone could justify taking the title from Ali."
Maybe Walcott deserved the win,maybe he didn't.but no one alive is in a position to say yay or nay.
Some ringside press who voted solidly for Louis included.
Bill Corum;
Starting with the first Joe Louis-Billy Conn heavyweight title fight on June 18, 1941, Corum joined announcer Don Dunphy as ringside color commentator. Over the next twelve years, Dunphy and Corum called nearly 500 major fights on Gillette's Friday Night Fights from New York's Madison Square Garden. Along with Damon Runyon, Grantland Rice, Ring Lardner, Red Smith, Walter Winchell, John Drebinger, and Max Kase, Corum was a major player in sports radio and news in the 1930s and 40s. Runyon described Corum as follows: "He is short, chubby and debonair. He looks cheerful and lives cheerfully … he writes about sports events as he sees them, and he always sees them a little more clearly than the rest of us. . . No more popular chap than Bill Corum ever lived in this man's town. He is one of the ablest journalists of these times and one of the grandest guys.
James P Dawson;
Sports writer and columnist for the New York Times. He began what would eventually become a 44-year career as a copy boy in 1908, eventually becoming the Times Boxing Editor in 1915. From 1919 on he covered every major boxing event held in New York City. He was a founding member of the New York Boxing Writers Association in 1936, where he served as it's first Vice-President. He was also a member of the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association, serving as President in 1936 and 1937. Dawson, who covered all three New York baseball teams, died from a heart attack while covering the Yankees in St. Petersburg, Florida, during spring training in 1953. The annual James P. Dawson award is presented annually to the top rookie in the Yankees' training camp.
Red Smith;
After 18 years, Smith joined the New York Herald Tribune in 1945. He cemented his reputation with the Herald Tribune, as his column, “Views of Sports”, was widely read and often syndicated. Smith wrote three or four columns a week that were printed by 275 newspapers in the United States and 225 in about 30 foreign nations. When the Herald Tribune folded in 1966, Smith became a freelance writer. In 1971, at the age of 66, he was hired by The New York Times and wrote four columns a week for the next decade, sometimes devoting 18 hours a day to them.
Smith mainly wrote about the sports that interested him such as baseball, football, boxing, and horse racing. He had a distaste for basketball (which he called "whistleball") and hockey, and often wrote about one of his passions, fly fishing for trout. Many of Smith's fishing stories were written in a self-deprecating manner and he often spoke of how embarrassingly bad he was at it. In 1956, one of Smith’s columns earned him the second Grantland Rice Memorial for outstanding sportswriting. He wrote in a journalistic style and avoided the flowery language and cliches of many sportswriters.
During his time with The New York Times, Smith garnered many awards. In 1976, he was the second[failed verification] sportswriter to win the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, citing "his commentary on sports in 1975 and for many other years".[2] Smith was honored (along with Harold Kaese) with the J. G. Taylor Spink Award by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) in December 1976.[3] Additionally, the Associated Press awarded him the first Red Smith Award for "outstanding contributions to sports journalism".
Nat Fleischer;
After he graduated from City College of New York in 1908, Fleischer worked for the New York Press while studying at New York University. He served as the sports editor of the Press and the Sun Press until 1929.[2] Encouraged by Tex Rickard, he inaugurated in 1922 The Ring magazine. In 1929 Fleischer acquired sole ownership of the magazine, which he led as editor-in-chief for fifty years, until his death at Atlantic Beach, New York in 1972.[2][3]
In 1942, Fleischer began to publish the magazine's annual record book and boxing encyclopedia,[3] which was published until 1987.[2] In addition, Fleischer wrote several other books about the lives of some world champions and about boxing history.[2][3]
Fleischer contributed to the founding of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) and was twice presented with its James J. Walker Award. After Fleischer's death, the BWAA named an award after him. Fleischer, who had been instrumental in creating The Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954 (disbanded in 1987), was himself an inaugural 1990 inductee to the Hall Of Fame .
Al Buck;
Up for auction is a rare autograph of one of boxing’s greatest writers, Al Buck.A long-time sportswriter for The Ring Magazine, Buck has been honored as the namesake for the “BoxingWriters of America Manager of the Year Award,” known alternately as “The Al Buck Award,” given annually to the best manager in boxing.A very rare autograph from one of boxing’s luminaries. ************************************************** *************************
John Lardner Son of Ring Lardner.
Lardner attended Phillips Academy, graduating in 1929. After one year at Harvard, he left for the Sorbonne in Paris[3] for a year, where he wrote for the International Herald Tribune. Never finishing his college degree, he elected instead to work for the New York Herald Tribune from 1931 onward, following in his father’s path as a sports writer. Lardner wrote a weekly column for Newsweek called "Sport Week" until his death (he had been associated with the magazine since 1939). From 1933 to 1948, he was a sports columnist and war correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance.[4]
He later became a war correspondent during World War II, dispatching from Europe and Africa.[5] He also deployed with the first American troops to Australia in 1942, and wrote the book Southwest Passage, published in 1943, documenting that experience. In addition, he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Woman's Home Companion. Lardner also worked with his brother Ring Lardner Jr. on film projects [6] and helped support his brother's family when Lardner Jr. was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios during the Red Scare of the late 1940s and 1950s.[3] He served on the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1959 to 1960.[7] Lardner died of a heart attack in March 1960, after years of fighting tuberculosis.[3][4]
Subsequently his friend, the author Roger Kahn, gathered many of his pieces into a book, The World of John Lardner. Another friend, cartoonist Walt Kelly, designed the jacket and wrote a preface.[citation needed] Some of Lardner's work was collected into a 2010 book, The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting, by sports writer John Schulian.[5] Lardner’s papers are located at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Jesse Abramson;
ABRAMSON, Jesse P. 1904-1979
PERSONAL: Born March 10, 1904, in Mountaindale, NY; died of cancer, June 11, 1979, in Mount Vernon, NY.
CAREER: New York Herald Tribune, New York, NY, reporter until 1966; director of U.S. Olympic Invitational indoor meet, 1966-1979; writer on track and field sports.
MEMBER: New York Track Writers (founder and president).
AWARDS, HONORS: Grantland Rice Award of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood; James J. Walker Award for service to boxing; award for meritorious service from the New York Track and Field Writers Association; prizes from E. P. Dutton publishers for stories, 1948, 1952, 1957, 1958, and 1965; inducted into Track and Field Hall of Fame (Indianapolis, IN) in honor of career achievements, 1981
My contention is these mentioned were excellent judges of boxing , and the fact that they, who were actually there and ringside , voted for Louis indicates it was a close fight with room for differing opinions.
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