The punch that ended varsity college boxing was a classic right hand delivered to the left temple of a beloved Badger boxer named Charlie Mohr. It happened 50 years ago Friday. On April 9, 1960, the University of Wisconsin was hosting the final night of the NCAA boxing tournament. The site was the Field House, which over the previous 25 years had regularly been filled with up to 15,000 fans. College boxing was enormously popular in Madison. The NCAA had an annual bracketed tournament, in the manner of the basketball tournament today, and UW had won eight of them.
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