Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fight fans were impressed. Champion Bobo Olson, 27, was far from a tiger. Sugar himself had beaten the balding Hawaiian beach boy twice in the past; Light-Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore took Bobo apart last summer. But at 35, Sugar seemed stale and slow. His comeback so far had been unimpressive; in January he was beaten by a clumsy trial horse, Tiger Jones. "I've had to come a long way," he admitted himself, "a lot further than people believe. The hard part was to keep faith in myself when everybody else was knocking me. Just my faith...
Competing against two Olympic lifters he placed eighth in the heavyweight division...
Doty, who started lifting when he was 13, began his training at the Waltham YMCA. As a representative of the Noble and Greenough School, the heavyweight won the M.I.T. high school weightlifting contest last year...
...still remember when their pal Willie Pastrano was a fat little five-foot butterball, the butt of all their jokes. Lately they have stopped laughing. Stretched out to his full growth (5 ft. 11 in., 181¾ lbs.), Willie, at 19, has toughened into one of the most promising heavyweight fist fighters since laughing Billy Conn came within a couple of rounds of whipping Joe Louis...
...barreled in to demonstrate that he can hold his own in a close-in roughhouse and absorb some solid swipes without slowing up. His night's work earned him a unanimous decision, and gave the matchmakers something new to think about in their search for a heavyweight-title contender...