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...Tokyo, Pascual Perez, a bull-necked little (107 3/4 Ibs.) battler from Argentina, swarmed all over Japan's Yoshio Shirai for 15 rounds and won the world's flyweight championship...
...boxer's rolling shuffle came to epitomize the ideals of the Naval Academy. But though Spike belonged to the Navy, he also found time to coach four U.S. Olympic teams. After Webb training, Olympians Frankie Genaro and Fidel La Barba went on to take turns holding the world flyweight championship. At Annapolis, meanwhile, Spike turned out such salty scrappers as Rear Admiral William V. ("Mickey") O'Regan and Submariner Captain Wreford ("Moon") Chapple...
...Tokyo, skinny (5 ft. 5 in., 112 lbs.) World Flyweight Champion Yoshio Shirai successfully defended his title against the Philippines' Tanny Campo in a plodding 15-round bout...
...boxing results sealed the U.S. team title. The U.S.'s Flyweight Nate Brooks, Light-Welterweight Charles Adkins, Middleweight Floyd Patterson, Light-Heavyweight Norvel Lee and Heavyweight Edward Sanders copped five gold medals (worth 50 points) in the ten final matches (Russian boxers got two silver medals...
Another world title changed hands this week. In Tokyo, for Japan's first world's title fight, some 42,000 fans went wild as Japan's Yoshiro Shirai, 28 and a sharp counterpuncher, outpointed Hawaii's aging (35) Dado Marino for the flyweight (112 Ibs.) title. Like Lightweight Salas, Shirai is the first fighter from his country ever to hold a world championship. The U.S., once the stronghold of boxing, now owns only half of the eight world titles. Others outside the U.S.: the welterweight (147 Ibs.) championship held by Cuba's Kid Gavilan...