Carmine Vingo fights, including a unanimous decision over highly regarded 16-2 contender Joe Modzele on a boxing card at Yankee Stadium in August 1949. A second round knockout of Al Robinson at Sunnyside Garden in Queens, New York, propelled Vingo into the world heavyweight rankings, and a crossroads bout with rising Rocky Marciano to determine a serious 'white hope' successor challenger for former world heavyweight champion Joe Louis and world heavyweight champion Jersey Joe Walcott. On December 30, 1949, at Madison Square Garden, Vingo, then 16-1, and Marciano, 24-0, fought a slugfest. Marciano put Vingo down in the first and second rounds.
Gregory Walcott Jackie Cooper. He was frequently cast in westerns like "Bonanza" (seven times), "Maverick", "Frontier Doctor", "Wagon Train", "The High Chaparral", "26 Men", "Sugarfoot" (with Will Hutchins and cast opposite another guest star, Joi Lansing, in the 1958 episode "Bullet Proof"), "Laramie", "The Rifleman", "The Tall Man", "The Dakotas", and in several episodes of CBS's "Rawhide", through which he began a long collaboration with Clint Eastwood. Walcott had featured roles in Eastwood's films "Joe Kidd" (1972), "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot" (1974), "The Eiger Sanction" (1975), and "Every Which Way But Loose" (1978). Walcott made a guest appearance on "Perry Mason" as Bill