Word: featherweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expert at their special form of assault and battery that they run out of opponents. Often, to keep busy they try western-style boxing on the side (Chamroen, Robert Cohen's opponent in last week's western-style bout, is also his country's featherweight, bantamweight and lightweight champion, Thai style). But without their music, forbidden to use their feet, forced to depend on their padded fists, most Thai fighters are hamstrung. Effete westerners, Thai fans agree, have ruined a fine, manly sport with foolish rules...
...cocky young Spike Webb was a comer, good enough to tangle in a nontitle Donnybrook with Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion. But before he had a chance to tackle Kilbane again, Spike was mixed up in a much bigger brawl. As coach of the 29th Division boxing team, he caught the eye of General John J. Pershing. At war's end he trained the A.E.F. boxing team for the Inter-Allied Army games in Paris. Spike has no trouble recalling the most stylish fighter on his squad: a young marine light heavyweight named Gene Tunney...
...Philippines' weightlifter Rodrigo Del Rosario, a featherweight (132¼ lbs.), who broke his own world record with a two-hand press...
Sniffed Dr. Summerskill, with the age old confidence of a real pro: "I regard Mr. Solomons as a featherweight. I think he ought to discuss the matter with [my last opponent], who left Fulham immediately after the contest." The early betting odds suggested a general lack of confidence in Promoter Solomons' ability to protect his sphenoidal ridge...
...while he cuffed, punched and elbowed him to defeat. Going into last week, he had fought 189 fights and lost only five of them. Moreover, on the record, the only man of modern times who could beat Willie was the man who took away Willie's title of Featherweight (126 Ibs.) Champion of the World three years ago, Sandy Saddler. Last week, as part of his announced program of keeping in trim for another bout with Sandy one of these days, Old Master Pep, 31, stepped into the ring with a youngster named Lulu Perez, 20, who a year...