Word: featherweight
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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...
...although the Commission still recognized Belloise because his bout with Armstrong was scheduled for ten rather than 15 rounds. Thus when Boxer Belloise, ill in The Bronx, was persuaded to exchange his championship claim for the promise of a return match, all Henry Armstrong had to do to become featherweight champion was to beat Petey Sarron...
...Orleans on three successive nights in September 1892, the old Olympia Sporting Club exhibited the world championship lightweight, featherweight and heavyweight boxers in bouts defending their titles. That famous occasion is still remembered because on the third night James J. Corbett knocked out John L. Sullivan...
...flocked some 55,000 fight fans, an estimated 70% of them Italian, began booing when Gavino Matta, Italy's flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight, who floored courageous Federico Cortonesi three times before the referee intervened in the second round. Otherwise Italian honor was dutifully upheld as Italy won six bouts to the U. S. five...
...they met again last September, Ambers won. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, they fought for the championship once more. This time, the sparring partner was a 3-to-1 favorite over his onetime employer. Experts felt that, after twelve years of fighting in which he had held the featherweight championship once, the junior welterweight championship once, the lightweight championship twice, Canzoneri, at 29, was past his prime...