Word: featherweight
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...Boxing divisions, with top weights: heavyweight, unlimited; light-heavyweight, 175 Ibs.; middleweight, 160; welterweight, 147; lightweight, 135; featherweight, 126; bantamweight, 118; flyweight...
...European featherweight champ Ray Famechon of France, won a unanimous ten-round decision over Glen Flanagan in Madison Square Garden last night. The fight marked the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Garden...
Battered, canny little Willie Pep, one of the shiftiest boxers in ring history and featherweight champion (except for three months) through the past eight years, figured that at the advanced fighting age of 28 he had learned all the tricks of his trade. A fast man on his feet and a fairly sharp puncher, he could also wrestle, gouge and butt with the best of them. Last week, nonetheless, Harlem's 24-year-old Sandy Saddler taught Willie a few new holds...
...bell ended the round, Pep sagged into his corner, grimacing with pain in his left shoulder. A boxing-commission doctor made a quick inspection, found the shoulder dislocated. By a technical knockout, Sandy Saddler was featherweight champion of the world...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., ABC and NBC-TV). Featherweight championship fight: Willie Pep v. France's Ray Famechon...