Word: flyweights
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...Flyweight Pancho Villa...
...International Union also drew up an official list of European champions: Flyweight Montreuil (Belgium...
...golf competitions. Walter Travis won in England in 1930, and Harold Hilton duplicated his feat at least once in America, but except for these two, foreign invaders have very rarely triumphed over native sons. There have, of course, been others. Jimmy Wilde, for example, probably the world's greatest flyweight, could win anywhere, and the brothers Doherty of England were as easily supreme at tennis in their day as "Big Bill" Tilden is at the present...
Pancho Villa of the Island of Panay in the Philippines became flyweight boxing champion of the world by knocking out Jimmy Wilde, Britisher, in New York (in the seventh round). Next day Wilde was spoken of in the public prints as " the bravest little man who ever held a ring title...