... win a ten-round battle, which is expected to give him the right to meet Lamotta in a title bout, just as his countryman, Marcel Cerdan, would, had he not lost his life in a plane crash. : It was a complete - upset, with odds 3 to 1 against Villemain at the ...

... intended to wait until the Lamotta-Marcel Cerdan world championship contest and then challenge the winner on behalf of Sands. Cerdan’s tragic aeroplane death, however, upset these plans and now that Villemain—Cerdan’s natural successor in France—has ...