Word: featherweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others: Hammering Henry Armstrong, who held the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles all in one year (1938) and Bob Fitzsimmons, who won the middleweight title in 1891, the heavyweight in 1897 and light-heavyweight...
Slender Lauro Salas, featherweight from Mexico, pulled the upset of the year last night when he wrested the World Lightweight Championship from Jimmy Carter of New York in 15 rounds at the Olympic Auditorium...
...Featherweight boxing champion Sandy Saddler was inducted into the Army yesterday and his title went with him for a two year stay. The lanky, 25-year old New York Negro became the first boxing champion to enter the services since the Korean conflict...
...Montreal Athletic Commission fined world featherweight champion Sandy Saddler $500 yesterday for his conduct in his bout Monday with Armand Savoie of Montreal...
...York's new boxing commissioner wasted no time getting down to business. One week after taking office and ten days after the Sandy Saddler-Willie Pep featherweight brawl, nine rounds of butting, thumbing and gouging (TIME, Oct. 8), Commissioner Robert Christenberry called in both fighters and swung a one-two punch. He revoked Pep's New York boxing license outright and handed Champion Saddler an indefinite suspension...