Word: middleweight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's line-up will be an unknown quantity. The Crimson can depend upon its lightweights and heavyweights, but the troublesome middleweight bouts will remain an enigma...
Died. Dick Tiger, 42, the Ibo tribesman who punched his way to the world middleweight and light heavyweight boxing titles; of cancer of the liver; in Aba, Nigeria. Tiger, whose real name was Dick Ihetu, was taught to box by British army officers in Nigeria before he migrated to New York City in 1959. Three years later he knocked out Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer. By 1966 he had moved up a class and took the light heavyweight title from José Torres. After losing the title in 1968 Tiger periodically visited his home to train soldiers for the rebel Biafran...
Barbed Wire. The fans attending the boxing match in a Cali bull ring also went wild when U.S. Middleweight Reginald Jones was awarded a close decision over Colombia's Bonifacio Avila Jones and his handlers had to be escorted out of the arena under a barrage of rocks and bottles. Noting the crowd's partisan cheering throughout the games, U.S. Decathlon Star Russ Hodge said: "They don't like us. Even in Russia they gave us better applause than they do here for a good performance...
...interesting childhood, the kind that-if you survive-makes you stronger for having had it." After World War II service in the Navy (fleet oilers, submarines), he worked briefly as a junior reporter for the New York Daily News before enrolling at Dartmouth, where he became the college middleweight boxing champion and ran on the cross-country team. To maintain his fit condition, Shnayerson runs four miles each morning in Manhattan's Riverside Park...
Moreover, the Ali-Frazier match is the classic ring encounter: boxer against slugger. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 215 lbs., with the elusive speed of a middleweight and a basic hit-and-not-be-hit strategy, Ali may well be the most graceful big man in boxing history. Frazier, who will spot his rival 3¾ in. in height, a crucial 8½ in. in reach, and 10 or so lbs. in weight, is a swarming, wade-in, bull ish brawler who willingly takes a punch or ten for the chance to score with his bludgeoning left hook...