Cerdan

Yet it is hard not to think that Cerdan's staying power had largely to do with his untimely death.

The Sound of France Mark Polizzotti 2011

The great exception was her love ­affair with the married heavyweight champion Marcel Cerdan.

The Sound of France Mark Polizzotti 2011

His friend, Luís Cerdan Mendina, echoes the same sentiment: They need more proof to ban him.

Pinto rallies around its favorite son, Alberto Contador 2010

Only one other story, that of Piaf's affair with boxer Marcel Cerdan (Jean-Pierre Martins), plays out just long enough to gain any sort of narrative traction.

GreenCine Daily: Berlinale Dispatch. La Môme. 2007

And there was this huge statue of Cerdan, and I was, like, "No way!"

There Will Be Oscars 2008

Red Smith said that LaMotta had his hands full "beating one side of Cerdan," who he said gave a very good account of himself as a "one-armed" fighter after injuring his shoulder in what was ruled a knockdown by LaMotta but was actually a punch-push.

Adventures in the Fight Racket #7 2007

Oct. 27, 1949 - Marcel Cerdan, former world middleweight champion, en route to fight Jake LaMotta in Spain.

Athlete plane crashes 1999

Cerdan, the independent Justice of John I., removed certain citizens from the prison, in which they had been unlawfully confined by the king, in defiance equally of that officer's importunities and menaces, the inhabitants of Saragossa, says Abarca, came out in a body to receive him on his return to the city, and greeted him as the defender of their ancient and natural liberties.

The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 William Hickling Prescott 1827