Indianapolis Recorder,Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1953
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ing against the ropes. Rocky landed a grazing left hook high on Joe’s head. The challenger dropped
his head down slightly behind his left shoulder, apparently expecting a follow-up right cross, when the champion loosed a right that actually was a cross with a little upswing. The blow caught Joe on the
left side of his chin.
The weight of the blow, coupled with Joe’s apparent attempt to move away from it, set the chal-
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longer flat on his pants. I do not believe he was out. Immediately when he hit, he grabbed the lower strand of rope and pulled his feet up close, readying himself to get up. A close-up showed his eyes I focused directly on his corner. AT THE COUNT OF “TEN” Jer- | sey Joe sprang to his feet. However, at the instant the count was tolled his gloves were still on the canvas as the result of his rising weight. When he did reach his feet he didn’t look groggy. He didn’t shake his head like so many fighters do after being knocked down. Instead, for a moment he offered his gloved fists to the referee for wiping off. Walcott walked straight to the referee immediately upon his realization of what had happened. He did not stagger, but rather stood erect and walked with that sort of prance fans know so well. I w ould not ^hazard an explanation of what happened in his corner because I did not see that. But I did see the punch. And I did hear the count. The movie was shown at the Uptown Theatre through the courtesy of United Artists. Only a handful of fight people and sportswriters were on hand.
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What happened? I don’t know!” voices babbled on all sides. * Since then, most of the writers and commentators have “thought it over” and come around to the conviction that Joe was legitimately kayoed by Rocky, who must be one of the greatest punchers of all time. But that’s not what they said when it happened. Some charged a fast count. Some said he was un at 10 and Referee Frank Sikora pushed him down. Practically all agreed that something had gone wrong other than a Marciano haymaker. Much of this was wild talk In the amazement of the dramatic finish. The movies clearly show that the count was right and that Wal-
cott W'as on the floor at 10. But he didn’t have to be, as we saw it. We thought the hardest blow of the abbreviated bout was a left by Walcott to Marciano’s nose. The “knockout” series consisted of a left hook by Rocky, followed by a right cross. And that was followed by Marciano falling into Walcott, as he did throughout the fight. Jersey Joe went down on his rear end. He immediately pulled up his knees, grasped the lower strand of the ropes, and looked intently at his corner for instructions. The rest is history—history that will be talked about and argued over as long as the fight game continues. NOW GET US STRAIGHT — we’re not saying that we’ve got to be 100 percent right. Maybe Rocky DID hit Jersey a helluva right uppercut. Maybe the Old Man WAS too dazed to get up. But all we can say is we were there, and it didn’t look like that
to us—nor to a lot of other guys either. Now most of them — including some who admittedly didn’t see the punch — have got together and are hollering “Long Live the King!” and making out the Cinderella Man to be a bum. Nobody follows a losing horse to the barn, unless it be guys that had their shirt on *him and want to kick him in the tail. But we still say that Arnold Cream, alias Jersey Joe Walcott, has done enough for the ring sport that he is entitled to have his side of the story listened to, especially on a doubtful mess like this. And we still say he wasn’t I knocked out.
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