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Originally Posted by dsvitak
I remember Howard Cosell just ... outraged at the beating a boxer took. I think it was Tex Cobb.
If you ever get a chance to read Cosell's autobiography "I Never Played the Game", it's a brilliant read.
Cosell had a Harvard law degree, and was the youngest commissioned Major in the US Army, for the entire second world war.
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He quit announcing fights after Holmes - Cobb. Tex later told Johnny Carson that he would take another 15-round beating if Cosell would quit announcing football too.