After the fight, Roughneck Rocky Graziano swaggered to his dressing room, wearing a big grin. It contrasted with the bellicose look of his tousled mop of hair and two-day growth of beard. The champ dunked his swollen hands in a hot pail of water and said: "We gettin' good, real good, ain't we? Gimme that bottle." He took a swig: "Ahhhdamn good. Lemon juice, honey and brandy. Warms up the body. I don't drink though, really I don't. Here, pass it around, Doc."
Croaked one of his hangers-on: "You pulped him, champpulped him." The world's middleweight champion scowled back coldly: "Gwan. I...
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