马塞尔·塞尔当

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马塞尔·塞尔当（Marcel Cerdan）(1916年7月22日 - 1949年10月27日)是一名出生在阿尔及利亚的法国人，他是世界拳击冠军，被许多拳击专家和拳击迷称为法国以及欧洲最伟大的拳击手，同时也被更多的拳击迷称为来自非洲的最伟大的拳击手之一。他的一生以其运动成绩、社会生活方式以及最终的悲剧而著名。

马塞尔·塞尔当出生在阿尔及利亚的西迪贝勒阿巴斯（Side Bel-Abbes）。1934年11月4日在摩洛哥梅克内斯（Meknes），在一场与Marcel Bucchianeri六回合决出胜负的比赛中，他开始了他的职业拳击生涯。从第一次较量到1939年1月4日在伦敦与Harry Cresner的比赛中被取消参赛资格而第一次失利，他连续赢得了一系列47场比赛的胜利。 阿尔·贝克（Al Baker）和艾萨·阿塔夫（Aisa Attaf）是这一系列被击败的拳击手中的两个，他们都两次被击倒。塞尔当在他的职业生涯中在摩洛哥和阿尔及利亚参加了大量的比赛，随后又在他父亲的家乡法国开始继续他的比赛。1938年，他在卡萨布兰卡一场12回合的比赛中击败了奥马尔·库韦德里（Omar Kouidri），赢得了法国次中量级拳击冠军。

在他的第一场失利之后，塞尔当因连续5场的胜利而有机会在意大利米兰挑战萨维耶罗·图列洛（Saviello Turiello）的欧洲次中量级拳击冠军的头衔。After his first loss, Cerdan put up a string of 5 wins that led him to challenge Saviello Turiello for Europe's welterweight title in Milan, Italy. He won the European title by a decision in 15 rounds to continue his ascent towards the championship (back then, it was considered essential to own at least a Continental title belt to earn a world title shot; nowadays, it is not considered as important).

That winning streak eventually grew to reach 23 wins, but he suffered a defeat to Victor Buttin by a disqualification in 8 rounds in Algiers.

For his next bout he put the title on the line against Jose Ferrer (namesake of the Hollywood star). He knocked out Ferrer in one round, and won four more bouts in a row before facing another boxer with a namesake: James Toney, who shared that name with another boxer who would become world Middleweight champion five decades later. Cerdan knocked out Toney in two rounds to keep this new winning streak alive. The new streak would reach 37 wins. In between, he joined the American allies in World War II during 1944, and he won the Inter-Allied Championship. He also went up in weight to the Middleweight division, and won the French title by beating Assane Douf by a knockout in three rounds. He later claimed the vacant European title by beating Leon Foquet by a knockout in one round. He retained that title a couple of times before losing it to Cyrille Delannoit by a decision in 15 at Brussels, Belgium. Soon, he went back to Belgium and re-took the title by beating Delannoit, also by decision.

Finally, after the rematch with Delannoit, Cerdan was given a world title opportunity and he travelled to the United States, where he beat world Middleweight champion Tony Zale. Cerdan became a world champion by knocking Zale out in the 12th round at New Jersey on September 21 1948.

During his short period as a world champion, Cerdan became a popular figure of the Paris scene. Although married with three children, he had an affair with the famous singer Edith Piaf, a legend on her own.

For his first defense, Cerdan returned to the United States, where he fought Jake LaMotta in Detroit. Cerdan was knocked down in round one, his shoulder was dislocated, and he had to surrender after the tenth round. It would sadly be the last fight of Cerdan's life. A contract was signed for a rematch and Cerdan went to training camp for it, but while flying to the United States to fight the rematch, Cerdan's Air France flight, flown on a SuperConstellation, went down in the Azores and everybody aboard died, including the famous violinist Ginette Neveu. Days later, LaMotta expressed words of condolences, praising Cerdan as a great human being. Cerdan was interred in the Cimetière du Sud, Perpignan, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

拉莫塔LaMotta later shocked the sports world by declaring during a hearing with the FBI, that in order to get a chance at Cerdan's title, he agreed to throw his fight against Billy Fox, to enable the Mafia to make a big monetary hit on the betting lines. Their fight was one of a handful of fights depicted on LaMotta's biographical movie Raging Bull in 1980.

塞尔当的纪录是106场胜利和4场失利，其中有61场是击倒对手而获胜。

他与拉莫塔以及扎莱同是国际拳击名人堂的成员。

1983年，塞尔当和皮亚夫的故事被搬上银幕，拍成了电影“埃迪特与马塞尔”，小马塞尔·塞尔当在其中扮演他父亲。

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