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Marcel Cerdan

... Marcel Cerdan In a little Paris cafe, not far from Sacre Coeur, stands a chair which is never occupied. Above it hangs a photograph—of Marcel Cerdan, the most popular French boxer since Carpentier and one-time middleweight champion of the world. He struggled ...

Published: Friday 07 January 1955
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 134 | Page: 20 | Tags: none

POSTPONED

... POSTPONED Postponed world middleweight championship fight between Jake Lamotta, holder, and Marcel Cerdan, former champion, may now be held on December 2. It was postponed because Lamotta sustained a shoulder injury. ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1949
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 31 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

A Denial

... body of one of the pilots was found with one arm protecting hiface as if from a blow. The 37 passengers also Included Marcel Cerdan. former world middleweight boxing champion whose body has also been indentified. Through the early nours to-day rescue ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1949
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 237 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

DEDICATED TO BOXER

... TO BOXER LOCH SHELDRAKF. (New York' NGrnd:av A new theatre at Lake Evans was dedicated here Last night to the memory of Marcel Cerdan. the 'former middle'veight boxing champion who was killed last Year in an aeroplane crash —A.P. ...

Published: Monday 29 May 1950
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 40 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

THE ECHO 11-PLUS

... tbe accumulator. Cooke loses Bootle's former British welter champion Johnny Cooke dropped a 10• rounds points defeat to Marcel Cerdan (France) In Lyons on Saturday. ...

Published: Monday 23 March 1970
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 52 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

Rapid Rise To Figgie Fans•

... the best middleweights I have seen were Marcel Cerdan, who brought the world's middleweight title to France, and the Quiet Man of boxing. Australia's Dave Sands. Both were killed under tragic circumstances. Cerdan in a 'plum crash and Sands in a road ...

Published: Saturday 29 December 1956
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 61 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

McAvoy to Fight in Paris

... Paris ]’ OCK McAVOY, British middle¢ weight champlon for 11 lewrs' and now making a come-hack, as fixed tlunp to meet Marcel Cerdan, formen uropean welter-weight champion, and now one of France's most successful middle-welghts, at the Palais des Sgurts ...

Published: Thursday 13 September 1945
Newspaper: Daily Dispatch (Manchester)
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 112 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SANDS CHALLENGES CERDAN DAVE SANDS, Australian champion. Sands thought that middle and light heavy- Cerdan's ..

... SANDS CHALLENGES CERDAN DAVE SANDS, Australian champion. Sands thought that middle and light heavy- Cerdan's style would suit him, weight champion, who fights and his manager, Tommy Tommy Yarosz, of America, at MacGuire, said : If Cerdan is Harringay on ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1949
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 81 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THE MAN WITH

... for a living. He fought all right—in the wrong hands. with too little experience and too big a heart he was matched with Marcel Cerdan and was massacred. He was given four months to recover from this battering—then back to the ring and to a knock-out punch ...

Published: Saturday 05 February 1955
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 93 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

VACANT

... VACANT BRUSSELS, Saturday. Owing to the failure of Felix Wouter,, of Belgium, the holder, and Marcel Cerdan. of France. to ign contracts for a fight for the Furopeon welterweight chanipimiship on November 13, the Int..rnational Boxing Union haze declared ...

Published: Saturday 15 October 1938
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 95 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

POOR FINISHING AT EWOOD PARK

... upright with Davison beaten. Dickie was the best of the home front line. Generally the finishing of both sides was poor. Marcel Cerdan. French welterweight champion, will probably meet Gustav Eder the German champion, Paris at the end of April. ...

Published: Monday 27 March 1939
Newspaper: Lancashire Evening Post
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 119 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

CERDAN IN

... CERDAN IN I NEW YORK MARCEL CERDAN, French holder of the world middleweight boxing championship, has arrived in New York by air to complete arrangements for the defence of his title. He is expected to face Jake Lamotta, of New York, in Detroit on June ...

Published: Saturday 21 May 1949
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 106 | Page: 4 | Tags: none