Marcel Cerdan
world middleweight champion
1948 - 1949
MARCEL CERDAN
The Casablanca Clouter
b. July 22, 1916
d. October 27, 1949
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WON
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LOST
4 |
DRAWS
0 |
KO'S
61 |
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World middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan has
boldly signed this 1948 book in dark blue fountain pen ink... The book is from
Cerdan's home country of France with all text being in French... Recollections
of Cerdan and his career by his manager Lucien Roupp... A very rare signature of
the best fighter the country of France has ever produced!!
measures: 5 x 7.5"
condition: some writing at top left of cover, average wear
sold
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The Encyclopedia Of
World Boxing Champions
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One of the most tragic events in boxing history was the
death of former middleweight champion Marcel Cerdan in a
plane crash in the Azores on October 27, 1949. Cerdan, the
greatest of all French champions, was enroute to the
States to take back the title that Jake LaMotta had
snitched from him. But this was incidental. The world
grieved because Marcel had succeeded where de Gaulle had
failed-he had revived the pride and prestige of a battered
nation.
The only precedent for Cerdan's immense popularity on both
sides of the Atlantic was the adulation of the French war
hero, Georges Carpentier, during the Twenties. But Cerdan
was more than a match for his American competitors. On
September 21, 1948, in Jersey City, the Frenchman won the
title by reducing tough Tony Zale to a helpless wreck in
11 rounds. He lost the title in Detroit on June 10, 1949,
to the unpopular LaMotta. Though hopelessly handicapped by
an injury to his left arm in the first round, Marcel
survived ten rounds against an opponent he would otherwise
have mauled. |
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John D. McCallum
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