Word: bantamweight
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bangkok last week, Thailand's Chamroen Songkitrat squared off with Algeria's Robert Cohen for the bantamweight championship of the world. Early in the fight, a right cross broke Chamroen's nose and splattered blood all over the ring; for 15 rounds both men whaled away at each other furiously. Chamroen was beaten on points. By western standards it was a lively scrap, but to Thais it looked like a mild family argument...
...expert at their special form of assault and battery that they run out of opponents. Often, to keep busy they try western-style boxing on the side (Chamroen, Robert Cohen's opponent in last week's western-style bout, is also his country's featherweight, bantamweight and lightweight champion, Thai style). But without their music, forbidden to use their feet, forced to depend on their padded fists, most Thai fighters are hamstrung. Effete westerners, Thai fans agree, have ruined a fine, manly sport with foolish rules...
Clean Sweep. A bantamweight vacuum cleaner was readied for the market by Westinghouse Electric Corp. Designed so it can be carried about the house on a shoulder strap, the 7-lb. 3-oz. Porta-Vac is about the size of a portable radio but is 80% as powerful as a full-size vacuum cleaner. Price...
...South Korea's bantamweight(123¼ lbs.) weightlifter Ho Yu In, who set a world mark of 285 lbs. for the two-hand clean and jerk...
...Keeny" (a corruption of the Spanish for "little one") Teran, was also and up & coming bantamweight (118 lbs.) boxer. As an amateur, he was beaten only once. As a professional, Keeny was hailed as a coming champion (16 wins, one draw) ; last year he won the boxing writers' "Fighter of the Year" award. Then, one night, his heroin-ravaged body failed to respond. Keeny took a savage beating from Hawaii's Tommy Umeda, a man he had beaten twice before...