Word: bantamweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Flyweight 108-112 Pancho Villa Bantamweight 116-118 Abe Goldstein Featherweight 122-126 Lightweight 133-135 Benny Leonard Welterweight 142-147 Mickey Walker Middleweight 158-160 Harry Greb Lightheavyweight 175 Mike McTigue (Cruiser) Heavyweight unlimited Jack Dempsey
...quarrel was over a purse−and the world's bantamweight boxing championship. The desperado was Abie Goldstein, "Harlem assassin," titleholder, whose boxing on this occasion was now brilliantly clever, now dismally stupid. The little old man was Charley Ledoux, of France, aged 32, bantamweight champion of Europe, who had come to America a third time ("and last," said he) with titular intentions...
Carpentier it was indeed, old friend of Little Old Man Ledoux. They have the same manager, Descamps; the same trainer, Gus Wilson; the same training quarters (for the present), the Jack Curley estate, at Great Neck, L. I. In 1909, when the "Gorgeous Orchid Man" was a bantamweight, Ledoux fought Carpentier (unsuccessfully...
...Bantamweight Joe Lynch...
...Bantamweight Lake (England...