As it is Boxing Day, and many retailers are declaring it Boxing Week or even Boxing Month, it is appropriate to pay tributes to gladiators of the square ring. To wit:
Joe Louis, Billy Conn, Sugar Ray Robinson, Georges Carpentier, Stanley Ketchell, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ezzard Charles, Rocky Marciano, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Graziano, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard, Marcel Cerdan, Jim Corbett, John L. Sullivan, George Chuvalo, Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, Mike Tyson, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Sugar Ray Leonard, Max Schmeling, Willie Pep, Archie Moore, Jersey Joe Walcott, Max Baer, Evander Holyfield, Roberto Duran, Leon Spinks, and all the cauliflower-eared fraternity.
Plus Gillette's blow-by-blow commentator Don Dunphy, Madison Square Gardens ring announcer Harry Balogh, and the Look Sharp, Be Sharp March.
Gentlemen, let's have a clean fight. Come out swinging, and no punching in the clinches. There's the bell, for Round One!
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