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Ezzy's body and then bombed the
Cincinnati Negro with a right to
the head that floored Charles
Charles was staggered repeat
edly thereafter but it wasn't un-
til the eighth that he hit the deck
again. He went down for four
from a series of rights and then
crumpled for keeps after a full
scale bombardment.
The second round was the key
one according to Marciano and
Containers Charley Goldman
and Allie Colombo.
"Tt was a right to the heart
that did It," said the 30-year -old
champion. II could hear him
grunt. I knew I had him then
and 1t was just a matter of time.
I figured I'd get him before the
10th. After that shot to the
heart, I dropped him with a
right-left-right combination. A
right dropped him first in the
eighth and then I gave him the
same right-left-right combina-
ton to stop him." ~
Body Punches Did It.
"The body punches did it."
said Colombo. 1T killed him in
the legs. I thought Rocky fin
ished him of with a left hook
to the chin. He had every punch
going well4but it was those hooks
that were real good"
"The difference this time from
the other fight was that Rocky
started faster and didn" let
Charles get of. He fired right
back when Charles opened up"
YEAH" said Rocky, every
time he opened up, / got some
| good ones in but after while
he didn't open UP too often"
Charles didn't this time. He
grabbed and held as If he re-
membered the severe shellacking
he had absorbed in the 18th
round last June when he barely
staggered to his corner at the
end. He was warned for holding
in the fourth and seventh and
many times the referee had to
pry him loose from the charging
Marciano.
This was more the cautious
Charles of the Jersey Joe Wal
colt days than the determined
fighter who won applause for
his game stand against the Rock
in June.
Rocky was warned repeatedly
by Berl for hitting after the bell
and below the waist but the ref
cree never penalized the cham
pion. Rocky hit Charles after
the bell in the second, fifth and
seventh. and drove a punch be-
low the waist in the sixth. Fol-
lowing Rocky's after-the-bell
wallop in the fifth, the angered
Charles fired one back himself.
Charles Won't Retire.
"They were unintentional," !"
Rocky said. II guess I did hit
him a couple of times after the
bell. But honest, I didn't hear
it. Just once I heard it. That
was after he hit me after the
bell"
II guess that's the way he
fights" said Ez, who declined to
criticize the champion.
Charles, knocked out for the
/ third time in SO fights (86-12-D, i,
said he had no intentions of re-
firing. He said he would rest
for about two weeks and then go
back into training.
/ AS usual, Rocky will need a
/ facial overhauling. He bled from
the nose in the third, suffered
/ the nose cut ("from Charles
/ elbow" said Rocky in the sixth.
and had a half-inch cut opened
over his left eye in the eighth.
"They told me to go and get
him after the eye was opened" I"
said Rocky. He did.
It was all-conquering Rocky's
41st kayo In ~ fights. He
weighed 1877. while Charles hit
l921a-heaviest of his career.
| For the record, Berl had Mar
ciano in front, 5-1-l, while
!! Judges Arthur Aidala and Frank
Il Forbes made it 6-1 each.
/ Considering the two consecu-
tive rain postponements. the re-
funding Of over $4,000. and the
late IL pm. fEDT starting time.
the fight didn't do too bad
j financially.
i The stadium crowd paid $685.
/ 654, radio added $35. 900 and the
i coast -to-coast theater television
boosted. the kitty about 500. 900
more. Rocky's 20 per cent came
to about $174,60s, white Charles
! collected $s7,304.