Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difference between the limit for welterweights (147 Ib.) and the limit for lightweights (135 Ib.) is not large but it is important. Lightweight champions had fought for the welterweight championship three times in the history of U. S. pugilism, when in New York last week a crowd of 65,000 paid $225,000 to see a fourth meeting of the same sort. In Madison...
...James Joy Johnston, who developed the practice of putting his brother's fighters on his increasingly unsuccessful cards, finally alienated the best of the country's fight managers and boxers who once considered a Garden engagement a crowning achievement. The final blow fell when the Ross-Petrolle lightweight championship tight was held last winter in a rival stadium in the distant and inconvenient Bronx...
Georgia's lightweight defense was like paper to Southern California, whose Left End Julius Bescos gathered in forward passes for two of five touchdowns...
...actually trained properly instead of indulging in what his manager calls "bad things." He was anxious to graduate from the featherweight class, of which he is champion, because he has trouble keeping his weight down, because there is not enough money in it. To get a match with the lightweight champion, Chicago's shifty Barney Ross he had first to whip savage little Canzoneri, the onetime champion whom Ross deposed last June...
...fake reaches its ultimate development in "The Prizefighter and the Lady." To begin with, Max Baer is cast in the leading role; then one finds wadded in here and there such notables as Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jess Willard, Jeffries, Strangler Lewis, and a positive swarm of middleweight, lightweight, anyweight champions, past and present. It goes without saying that most of these worthies appear for about ten seconds, and are barely visible to the naked eye; nevertheless, they are in the picture. Strangely enough, Max Baer as Stove Morgan, plays his part with a certain amount of finesse; his rendition...