Word: featherweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bootleg bouts ended when Robinson turned professional in 1940. As an amateur he had never lost a fight, had won 85 straight, including Golden Gloves titles in the featherweight and lightweight divisions. Robinson's first professional bout was a four-round preliminary at Madison Square Garden. He won (a second-round knockout), and the $100 he earned was the equivalent to four bootleg bouts, where wristwatches were the currency...
...Chocolate won the featherweight title in New York, never made his claim stick elsewhere...
...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...
...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...