Word: lightweights
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...captured the New England Lightweight Amateur Championship in 1929 just two years into his competitive boxing career. Rawson then traveled to the newly built Chicago Stadium, affectionately known as the Madhouse on Madison, with his New England club to compete in the national amateur tournament...
With his liquid-quick left jab working to perfection, he breezed through the competition to win the junior national lightweight title with such distinguished individuals such as Al Capone and Gene Autry looking on from the stands...
...next 11 years, he traveled all across North America as a 135-pound lightweight. Unlike today where there are numerous divisions under which boxers can compete for championships, Rawson fought in an era where there were only eight weight classes...
...twice came within a match of fighting legendary world lightweight champion Henry Armstrong, and stills gets angry thinking about one of the two bouts he felt was stolen from him by the judges...
Although he came just short of a chance to claim the world lightweight title, Rawson continued to fight distinguished boxers until he stopped three years later...