Hawaii's Carl ("Bobo") Olson and England's Randy Turpin have much in common. Both are 25-year-old middleweights who learned their fighting in slum streets, both have been boxing since their early teens, and both have suffered stinging defeats at the fists of Sugar Ray Robinson, now retired. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, a sellout crowd of 18,869 turned out to watch Olson and Turpin fight for Robinson's old crown.
Turpin, a hard-punching, unrefined sort of fighter, started strong. He dashed out throwing punches, carried the fight to Olson for the first three rounds....
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