Word: bantamweight
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team as a mere shadow of the 1984 squad, which had won a record nine gold medals. But last week they finished with eight medals -- three gold, three silver and two bronze. Except for the boycotted 1984 Games, it was the best U.S. total since 1904. The gold winners: bantamweight Kennedy McKinney, 22, light heavyweight Andrew Maynard, 24, and heavyweight Ray Mercer, at 27 the oldest U.S. fighter, who danced delightedly around the ring after knocking out Korea's Baik Hyun-man. Light middleweight Roy Jones, 19, lost a plainly mistaken decision to Korean Park Si-Hun (even some Korean...
...woolliest confrontation of the week took place after the final bell sounded in a bantamweight fight. When South Korea's Byun Jong-Il lost a narrow decision, his coach and trainers, along with several Korean boxing officials, poured through the ropes and pummeled New Zealand referee Keith Walker. Byun, for his part, protested the decision by refusing to leave the ring for 67 minutes. Byun and five Korean officials were suspended indefinitely, and President Kim Chong-ha of the Korean Olympic Committee resigned, taking "full responsibility" for the ruckus...
...thing. "Cash or green stamps?" By the end of the '60s, Martin was an itinerant manager batting out minor club officials and bespectacled traveling secretaries with either hand. Outside a Detroit bar, he flattened one of his own players, Dave Boswell, and began moving up through the ranks of bantamweight sportswriters and marshmallow salesmen to unidentified phantoms...
DIED. Francisco ("Kiko") Bejines, 20, Mexican bantamweight boxer; from head injuries suffered in a World Boxing Council title bout with Alberto Davila on Sept. 1; in Los Angeles. After undergoing 3½ hours of surgery to remove a section of his frontal lobe, the boxer lingered comatose for two more days; his was the 437th boxing death recorded by Ring magazine over the past 64 years. Bejines' wife, pregnant with the couple's first child, remained in their home town of Guadalajara, Mexico...
...season to mint money. Hollywood traditionally saves its big comedies for Christmas and, almost invariably, fills its stockings with hits. In 1980, for example, a trio of holiday comediesying home with their new video games. This season moviemakers are playing by the old rules, with bantamweight farces and mellow romantic comedies that are luring sizable audiences to the local Cineplex. The class comedy act is Tootsie, in which Dustin Hoffman winningly proves that an actor's life is a drag. But there are other new comedies aiming to answer the moguls' prayer: that this Christmas will be business as usual...