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Can you imagine a smart, clever boxer with a cabbage ear? Maxie Rosenbloom of New York, king of the cruiser weight division otherwise the light - heav(...)
Can you imagine a smart, clever boxer with a cabbage ear? Maxie Rosenbloom of New York, king of the cruiser weight division otherwise the light - heav(...)

Can you imagine a smart, clever boxer with a cabbage ear? Maxie Rosenbloom of New York, king of the cruiser weight division otherwise the light - heav(...)

Date6/10/1931
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  • Can you imagine a smart, clever boxer with a cabbage ear? Maxie Rosenbloom of New York, king of the cruiser weight division otherwise the light - heavy weight or 175 pound class of the world, who arrived here today to fight Charley Belanger, the Canadian light-heavy weight champion, next Monday night, has a real old-fashioned cauliflower! And he got it deliberately, and with malice aforethought! I never told any newspaper man about it before, but the honest truth is that I went out to get that ear and I wasn't satisfied until I did.
  • Can you imagine a smart, clever boxer with a cabbage ear? Maxie Rosenbloom of New York, king of the cruiser weight division otherwise the light - heav(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Can you imagine a smart, clever boxer with a cabbage ear? Maxie Rosenbloom of New York, king of the cruiser weight division otherwise the light - heavy weight or 175 pound class of the world, who arrived here today to fight Charley Belanger, the Canadian light-heavy weight champion, next Monday night, has a real old-fashioned cauliflower! And he got it deliberately, and with malice aforethought! I never told any newspaper man about it before, but the honest truth is that I went out to get that ear and I wasn't satisfied until I did.
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