Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Harold Johnson, a glass-jawed light heavyweight who held the title in his. hands for 14 rounds last summer before he blundered into Archie Moore's murderous right, uncorked a wallop of his own, flattened Joe Louis' protege Paul Andrews in six rounds and moved one step closer to another crack at Moore. ¶ In New Haven, Conn., Yale's 400-yd., free-style relay swimmers got the university's annual water carnival off to a fast start by splashing to a new world's record...
...Murphy, an ex-GI with considerable experience, has been helping Lamar with the newer boxers. He may enter the heavyweight class...
...former Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey's few defensive weaknesses is his habit of dropping his guard when near girls named Estelle. The succession began with his second wife, Actress Estelle Taylor, continued last year when
...victory gave the varsity a 15 to 14 win over the Lions, the Crimson's first in the last three meets. It came after previously undefeated Captain Ken Culbert (177) lost a 6 to 5 decision to Dale Granger, Columbia's heavyweight power-house...
...there was one more title he wanted before he retired. In June 1952, just a year after Randy Turpin taught him how old he really was, 32-year-old Middleweight Robinson climbed into the sweltering ring at Yankee Stadium to take on Joey Maxim for the light-heavyweight title. In the old days he could have laid Maxim out, but he skipped and danced for twelve rounds, nicked punches and piled up points. Joey, no more than a journeyman champ, shrugged off the blows, shuffled forward for the 13th round, and watched Sugar Ray collapse from the heat. That winter...