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Welterweight Billy Graham had fought Champion Kid Gavilan three times before. Irish Billy took a split decision in one of two nontitle bouts. Cuba's "Kid Hawk" won the other, plus a title defense against Billy-also on split decisions. But the last time Slugger Graham tangled with Boxer Gavilan, Billy's admirers were bitter as they left Madison Square Garden. They muttered darkly that Billy had been robbed; they began calling him "the champ without the crown...
...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, and the bantamweight (118 Ibs.) held by South Africa's Vic Toweel...
...GAVILAN OVER ZANNELLI...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., May 19--World welterweighta chmpion Kid Gavilan won a unanimous 10-round decision over vetterna Ralph Zannelli of Providence in a rugged clash that drew a record gate for Rhode Island. It was a non-title bout...
...Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan of Cuba and Harlem, a split decision over Texas' Bobby Dykes, in Florida's first "mixed" fight; at Miami...