Word: battalino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Hartford's battered Bat Battalino abdicated his title in 1932, there has been no undisputed world's featherweight (126 Ib.) champion. Last week Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has had a hand in settling the championship of practically every other division of boxing, inaugurated his tenure of the boxing rights at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden by matching the two ranking featherweight contenders in an effort to produce one acknowledged champion...
...Frankie Petrolle, welterweight of Schenectady, N. Y., young brother of famed Billy ("Fargo Express''): a ten-round fight against onetime Featherweight Champion Christopher ("Bat") Battalino, whom Billy Petrolle has thrashed in two bloody fights this year (TIME, April 4; May 30); at Long Island City...
...Tommy Paul, Buffalo boxer: the world's professional featherweight championship by beating Johnny Pena of Manhattan in the National Boxing Association's contest for Battalino's outgrown title; in Detroit...
Lightweight fighters were lavish last week with gore and sincerity. Goriest, most sincere was an encore in the Chicago Stadium of the unforgettable meeting two months ago in New York between Christopher ("Bat") Battalino and Billy ("Fargo Express") Petrolle, whose right hand is a trip-hammer (TIME, April...
...Battalino advanced as usual at the bell, his flat face screwed up ready for pain. He walked in at a crouch close to Petrolle with his hands up beside his ears, then suddenly cut loose with both hands, wide open. Coldly, Petrolle stabbed him with trip-hammer rights, straight lefts, and backed away. Crouching again, Battalino sprang after him, savagely knocked Petrolle down with another torrent of blows. Petrolle is one of the ring's sagest fighters. He knelt till the count of nine, stalled for more time by wiping the resin off his gloves on the referee...