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  2. Randall "Tex" Cobb - Wikipedia

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    Randall Craig "Tex" Cobb (born May 7, 1950) is an American actor, martial artist, and former professional boxer who competed in the heavyweight division. Considered to possess one of the greatest boxing chins of all time, [1] Cobb was a brawler who also packed considerable punching power. [2]

  3. Earnie Shavers - Wikipedia

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    Earnie Dee Shaver (August 31, 1944 – September 1, 2022), [1] best known as Earnie Shavers, was an American professional boxer who competed between 1969 and 1995. A two-time world heavyweight championship challenger, he is known as one of the hardest punchers in boxing history.

  4. Ernest Goes to Jail - Wikipedia

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    It stars Jim Varney, Gailard Sartain, Barbara Bush, Charles Napier, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Bill Byrge, Barry Scott and Dan Leegant. It is the fourth film to feature the character Ernest P. Worrell and the third film in the Ernest series, after Ernest Goes to Camp (1987) and Ernest Saves Christmas (1988). It was released on April 6, 1990.

  5. List of world heavyweight boxing champions - Wikipedia

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    def. Randall "Tex" Cobb on November 26, 1982 def. Lucien Rodriguez on March 27, 1983 def. Tim Witherspoon on May 20, 1983 def. Scott Frank on September 10, 1983: The Ring def. Muhammad Ali on October 2, 1980: 2 [32] IBF: December 11, 1983: September 21, 1985 650: def. James Smith on November 9, 1984 def. David Bey on March 15, 1985 def. Carl ...

  6. Diggstown - Wikipedia

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    Someone named John Gillon owns almost all of Diggstown. He is the former manager of Diggstown's once-famous boxer Charles Macom Diggs, the man for whom the town is named. Upon hearing that Diggs once knocked out five fighters in one day, Fitz says he knows of a fighter who could knock out any ten in one day: Honey Roy Palmer.

  7. The Champ (1979 film) - Wikipedia

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    Randall "Tex" Cobb as Bowers, Billy's final opponent; Robert Redford turned down the lead role. [2] Ryan O'Neal signed to play the lead but wanted his son Griffin as T.J. After the director refused, claiming that Griffin was too old, O'Neal withdrew from the project. [3]

  8. Uncommon Valor - Wikipedia

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    Uncommon Valor is a 1983 American action war film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring: Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze, Harold Sylvester and Tim Thomerson.

  9. Howard Cosell - Wikipedia

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    Cosell denounced professional boxing during the broadcast of a November 26, 1982, WBC heavyweight championship bout between titleholder Larry Holmes and a clearly outmatched Randall "Tex" Cobb at the Astrodome. The fight was held two weeks after the fatal fight between Ray Mancini and Kim Duk-koo, when Kim died shortly after the fight.