Word: welterweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madison Square Garden, a 17-year-old Chicago cook named Dick Guerrero forgot to duck in the second round and was knocked clear out of the ring. Guerrero climbed back in, talked the referee out of stopping the fight. He then battled his way to the Golden Gloves welterweight championship. The heavyweight winner: 20-year-old Coley Wallace of Harlem, who looks like Joe Louis but doesn't fight as well; he was booed after winning...
Mickey ("Toy Bulldog") Walker, 46, who used to be middleweight and welterweight champion of the world, won the job of sports editor of the Police Gazette...
Some of the amateurs, who-included Jimmy McLarnin, ex-welterweight champion, and Ernie Nevers, Stanford's great All-America of 23 years ago, did better. Bing, proud of himself at getting across the abyss to the edge of the green, flubbed a second shot that most schoolkids could have made...
...took his ring name from a crack Negro welterweight of half a century ago, who, like Jersey Joe's father, was born in Barbados...
...ring's center, Sugar Ray Robinson, making his first defense of the welterweight championship, took the victor's bow, but he did no victor's dance: his opponent lay in a coma, and a doctor was examining him. Later, in his dressing room, Robinson asked: "Is the kid up yet? The punch only traveled six inches, I think." Almost as he spoke stretcher-bearers were taking Jimmy Doyle from Cleveland's Arena. A few fans recalled the words that the Cleveland Press's Columnist Franklin Lewis wrote earlier that day about how things would...