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...Cuba's Kid Gavilan, already signed to meet Chicago's Johnny Bratton for the welterweight championship, over Middleweight Gene ("Silent") Hairston, a ten-round decision; in Manhattan...
...Bratton's victory was fresh evidence of the astonishing extent to which Negro fighters have succeeded in capturing today's world titles. Above the bantamweight class, reluctant Light-Heavyweight Joey Maxim, who has not defended his title in more than a year, is the only white man who holds a world championship...
...title fight was recognized in 47 states (New York excepted) by the National Boxing Association. *The champions: Heavyweight Ezzard Charles, Light-Heavyweight Maxim, Middleweight Robinson, Welterweight Bratton, Lightweight Ike Williams, Featherweight Sandy Saddler. South Africa's Vic Toweel, a white man, holds the bantamweight title, and Hawaii's Dada Marino the flyweight...
Like Sugar Ray Robinson, Chicago's Johnny Bratton is fond of flashy clothes and cars, can handle a hot lick on the drums, and boxes with a fancy-Dan prance. When Sugar Ray graduated to the middleweight title by out-punching Jake LaMotta (TIME, Feb. 26), Bratton decided to apply for Sugar's vacant welterweight title. In Chicago's Stadium last week, 23-year-old Johnny put up a fight for it.* His opponent: New Jersey's Charley Fusari, 25, who has the distinction of once having stayed in the same ring with Sugar Ray Robinson...
...good, hard, remarkably even fight. Bratton had the best of Round One; his sharp left jabs opened a cut over Fusari's eye. Round Two was Fusari's; his rights had Bratton bouncing groggily off the ropes. In the fourth, it was Fusari who did the bouncing. A whistling Bratton right knocked him to the canvas for a three-count. In the tenth, Fusari ran into another right and went down again, this time for nine, and only staggered to his feet by clutching the referee's shirt sleeve. But when he wasn't in trouble...