Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...promoters tried to bill it as the "fight of the century," and barred radio and television from ringside, but the fans were not fooled. Only 31,188 customers turned up in Yankee Stadium to see Heavyweight Harry ("Kid") Matthews, a pretty boxer who can't punch, square off against "Rocky" Marciano, a rugged puncher...
Middlewight (160 Ibs.) Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, the greatest fighter, pound for pound, of his lackluster day, set his sights high. In challenging Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim, one-time Welterweight (147 Ibs.) Champion Robinson was aiming to become the third man in ring history ever to hold three titles.*For ten rounds, sweltering under the ring lights at Yankee Stadium one night last week, Robinson was right on target, bombing bumbling Maxim with a brilliant series of rights & lefts, throwing his punches in bunches and dancing skillfully out of harm...
...stool and ropes, unable to move. The bell rang for the 14th round, but he could not answer it. As Sugar Ray drooped in his corner, the ring announcer held high the hand of his thoroughly outpointed opponent and proclaimed "the winner by a technical knockout, and still light-heavyweight champion: Joey Maxim...
...others: Hammering Henry Armstrong, who held the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles all in one year (1938) and Bob Fitzsimmons, who won the middleweight title in 1891, the heavyweight in 1897 and light-heavyweight...