Lookback: The Austin Atom blasts first round win in 1950 fight - Austin Daily Herald

Lookback: The Austin Atom blasts first round win in 1950 fight - Austin Daily Herald

By Tim Ruzek On a summer night in 1950, Austin’s Jackie Graves continued his comeback as a national featherweight when he walked into the ring at his hometown’s Marcusen Park baseball stadium. Nicknamed “The Austin Atom,” Graves was facing off July 24, 1950, against Jackie Blair – the “Texas Sensation from Dallas” – after a great deal of pre-fight hype. Graves and Blair trained separately in public in a boxing ring set up at Horace Austin State …