Marcel Cerdan Jnr, the oldest of three sons born to the great former middleweight champion of the world Marcel Cerdan Snr, has died of pneumonia in Issy-les Moulineaux, France, at the age of 81, ...
After many a summer, a foreign fighter reached the U.S. without bringing along a glass chin and a pair of collapsible knees. In smoke-hazy Madison Square Garden, hairy-chested Marcel Cerdan, ...
In Madison Square Garden, it was an even pleasanter affair for another Frenchman. He won. Marcel Cerdan, middleweight boxing champion of Europe, had a handicap to face in the U.S.; European boxers ...
I recently read the New York Times obituary for the famous American boxer, Jake “Raging Bull” LaMotta, who was portrayed by Robert De Niro in the acclaimed 1980 film of the same name. The article’s ...